Co-design of a Nature-Based Solutions Ecosystem for Reactivating a Peri-Urban District in Quito, Ecuador

Nicolas Salmon; Grace Yépez; Micaela Duque; Mónica Yépez; Antonio Báez; Mauricio Masache-Heredia; Gabriela Mejía; Paco Mejía; Grace Garofalo; David Montoya

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-73399-5_6

Co-design of a Nature-Based Solutions Ecosystem for Reactivating a Peri-Urban District in Quito, Ecuador

Nicolas Salmon^*, Grace Yépez, Micaela Duque, Mónica Yépez, Antonio Báez, Mauricio Masache-Heredia, Gabriela Mejía, Paco Mejía, Grace Garofalo, David Montoya

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Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Arts

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Abstract

In Quito, climate change has shifted average temperatures, increased flooding during the rainy season, and intensified fires during the dry season. The city of Quito is committed to reducing its emissions at a 5% annual rate until 2025. For this purpose, Quito has developed specific plans like the “Vision 2040” and the “Resilience Strategy.” The present paper results from an award-winning proposal to the “Mi barrio ejemplar y sostenible” [My exemplary and sustainable neighborhood] urban competition and is based on developing the “Vision 2040” for San Enrique de Velasco, a typical peri-urban district of Quito. This proposal was developed considering a co-design process using both traditional methodologies and an innovative tool based on collaborative urbanism. Against a deprived and segregated district, where the lack of green areas and access to nature is now affecting the daily life of residents, the proposal considers using nature-based solutions (NBS) as a main driver for rehabilitating pride and a cohesive spirit among neighbors, developing the local economy, recovering the important natural assets of the area, solving issues like stormwater management and lack of comfort in public areas with ecological means, and developing a new landscape.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Urban Book Series
Publisher	Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages	79-104
Number of pages	26
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73399-5_6
State	Published - 2021

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Name	Urban Book Series
ISSN (Print)	2365-757X
ISSN (Electronic)	2365-7588

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Funding

Currently, the project’s implementation as a pilot project in the city of Quito is under discussion. SEV has been integrated as a pilot project for the project CLEVER Cities dedicated to the use of NBS as a tool for socio-economic regeneration of deprived districts and funded by the European Union. Different sources of governmental and international funding are also in the process of evaluation. There are discussions on transforming SEV into an urban lab for the transition of Latin American peripheral districts. The local community takes a leading role in demonstrating their commitment to the implementation of the proposal by providing necessary material, labour, and social organization. In the framework of CLEVER Cities, the Municipality of Quito decided to integrate SEV in its urban lab program and to monitor at the same time both co-design processes and the application of NBS at a neighborhood scale. SEV also became the experimental area to define NBS-related urban standards in the new land use and management regulation (PUGS) for the city of Quito.

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European Commission

Keywords

Co-design
Latin America
Nature-based solutions
Resilience
Urban planning

UN SDGs

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Salmon, N., Yépez, G., Duque, M., Yépez, M., Báez, A., Masache-Heredia, M., Mejía, G., Mejía, P., Garofalo, G., & Montoya, D. (2021). Co-design of a Nature-Based Solutions Ecosystem for Reactivating a Peri-Urban District in Quito, Ecuador. In Urban Book Series (pp. 79-104). (Urban Book Series). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73399-5_6

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