Espacio público y comunidad. La disolución de lo rural en el sector San José de Cocotog en el borde urbano de Quito.

Abstract

This paper is focused on establishing the common understanding of public space, rather than the theoretical concept, in a location that is constantly undergoing a process of urban-architectural modification and transformation. This transformation entails the analysis of two ways of living, two lifestyles and two worlds that, due to urban growth and expansion, struggle, as a way of survival of the fittest, to impose their original characteristics and conditions on the other, we find a rural sector, which at a certain time had a clear agricultural and production vocation, its communal work and life in community, its habits and traditions; which is "threatened" by the arrival of a wave of features typical of the urban sector, by the optimization of land as merchandise, the increase of constructions, accelerated life and social individualism.The methodology used allowed, through the theoretical study, study around the place, planimetry analysis information provided by local government, to consider the public space as an element of social and cultural harmonization, we determine, from the ur-ban and architectural point of view, the perception that the inhabitants of a zone "in conflict", have concerning the establishment of the private, and how their original collective scenarios can maintain and endure, without neglecting the benefits of urbanization (access to basic services, improved infrastructure, better accessibility, and connectivity) and overcome the disappearance of the strong and meaningful rural characteristics.