Proposal of a master plan of green areas, for the mitigation of the effect of the heat island. Case study: Southwest District, Febres Cordero Parish - Guayaquil.

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Angela Teresa Cruz Barragan

Abstract

This work focuses on the reality of one of the densest areas of the city of Guayaquil, the Febres Cordero Parish, with an approximate population of 344,254 inhabitants. It developed in the middle of the last century, when the need to provide housing to the large number of people who migrated from different parts of the country, in search of a better economy and social development, predominated. The study area has an orderly spatial configuration with a type of orthogonal or checkerboard urban plot, but without the provision of recreational spaces and without the need for care and interaction with nature, these actions affected the population, which was largely evidenced, during the COVID-19 pandemic that hit the world,  where people were locked up and with the need to have contact with healthy outdoor areas.


The surface temperature of cities has increased in recent years due to factors such as increased population density, use of impermeable materials, degree of reflectance of materials in construction, and elimination of the vegetal layer, all this due to poor urban planning, without future projection and that I do not consider the need to preserve green areas,  Permeable soil cover, urban trees and other elements that reduce the incidence of solar radiation. The present proposal seeks to make a change in the urban image where a change of the current situation of the parish is proposed Febres Cordero in which waterproof materials and concrete predominate. Items to reduce the increase in temperature, improve the situation and quality of life of the inhabitants,  proposing a greater amount of green spaces, and shaded areas, where leafy and perennial foliage of trees predominates; These actions increase the rate of heat absorption and reduce the incidence of sunlight.

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Cruz Barragan, A. T. . (2022). Proposal of a master plan of green areas, for the mitigation of the effect of the heat island. Case study: Southwest District, Febres Cordero Parish - Guayaquil. ArTeS: Architecture, Technology and Sustainability, 3(1), 26–35. https://doi.org/10.53591/ArTeS.v3.i1.1997
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Author Biography

Angela Teresa Cruz Barragan, Decentralized Autonomous Government of the Guayaquil Canton

Angela Teresa Cruz Barragán, born  in Guayaquil on August 14, 1990, Architect, with professional experience in Design, Planning and planning of the territory with approaches in landscaping. He has worked in various government institutions. He currently works in the Directorate of Environment and Preservation of Green Areas, of the Municipality of Guayaquil

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