| dc.description.abstract | Normally, when there is a study about urban expansion in Cuenca, this tends to be about the
totality of the city or about the rurality as you can see in the “Planes de Ordenamiento
Territorial (PDOT)”. So, under these circumstances this kind of works doesn’t consider the
urban parishes as units that deserve to be studied, as these are seen as a total and they talk
about the “urban zone” or “the urban area”. Because of this and the low amount of studies
about this topic, there is not a high level of knowledge that can be useful to know about the
growth y development of the city. Under this reason, this work will be made as a way to
understand the causes of the urban growth to El Batán, starting from certain points of interest
that led to a change of the dynamics that rule the city, as the creation of the Feria Libre or
“Centro Comercial (C.C) El Arenal”, also from the most recent construction of the C.C “El
Batán”, and some streets and avenues that serve as connections to the parish such as Av. de
las Américas and Av. Ordóñez Lasso; thus, in this study we also mention the transformation
in the landscape of El Batán as a result of the expansion of Cuenca to this area. In order to
identify those changes, we will compare some city blueprints and use some satellite
photographs to contrast them. Also, we will use de DELPHI method to obtain information
from experts and from these parish inhabitants. Also, this investigation was intended to
answer the question: which social and economic factors influenced in the growth, landscape
change, and expansion to (and into) the urban parish El Batán since the decade of 1980?
while trying to describe and analyze the different dynamics of growth and landscape change
in said parish | |
