From chaos to order. Guayaquil and its current urban development

Authors

  • Daniel Wong Chauvet Architect , Arquitecto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/ciudades.09.2005.179-192

Keywords:

Guayaquil, Ecuador, evolution, pier

Abstract

The city of Guayaquil, main port of Ecuador, is one of the most valuable urban experiences, at least inside the Latin American context. The most peculiar is that this city have had abrupt and accelerated changes. First by multiple fires and sackings about more than a hundred years ago, and later by inefficient and indifferent municipal administrations, that taked Guayaquil to a state of chaos and alarming deterioration. The city began to leave this situation less than twelve years ago. To the present, it has been almost totally back. This article is an analysis of that development, with an urban evolution that today intensifies and is being constituted in a model of integral and exceptional urban development.

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Published

2018-02-01

Issue

No. 09 (2005): The Latin American city: Beyond the grid

Section

Monographic section

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From chaos to order. Guayaquil and its current urban development. (2018). Ciudades, 09, 179-192. https://doi.org/10.24197/ciudades.09.2005.179-192