Abstract

VELASQUEZ MAREA, CARMEN; BRAVO, GAUDY  and  ROMERO, ELOÍSA. OVERCOMING STRATEGIES FOR NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT THROUGH ECOBARRIOS. CASE STUDY: BRISAS DEL GUARAPICHE. Saber [online]. 2016, vol.28, n.4, pp.784-793. ISSN 1315-0162.

A study was conducted in Brisas de Guarapiche neighborhood, Maturin municipality, Monagas state, Venezuela,with the main objective of designing a sustainable urban intervention model that is called Ecobarrios, highlighting the  value  of  local  interventions  in  the  territory,  besides  of  its  contextualization  in  agreement  with  its own environmental conditions. In this sense, the needs of the community  were identified for  multiple aspects, such as social, economic, ecological and environmental. The application of SWOT analysis to the diagnosis made it  possible  to  create  a  conceptual  structure  for  the  evaluation of  territorial  vulnerability  to  confront  social  and environmental conflicts. This allowed to establish overcoming strategies and acting lines that were related with: identity construction starting from a contact with nature, social cohesion, urban mobility and urban densification as a result of the introduction of new urban planning approaches.

Keywords : Ecourbanism; urban vulnerability; urban sostenibility.

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