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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Quito"”.
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Context and design in the colonial district of Quito = Contexto y diseño en el area colonial de Quito
Songs Everything passes yet all remains but we only pass by, pass by leaving paths, paths over the sea. I never sought glory, nor to leave my song in the memory of men; I love subtle worlds, weightless and graceful like bubbles of soap. Wanderer, your footprints are the only path; wanderer, there …
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Informal Car Share's Contribution to Urban Resilience in Quito, Ecuador
… existing definitions of ICS, using cases from Quito, Ecuador, a mountain city located in the Andes region in South America. It does so by analyzing Quito's ICS perceived effectiveness and performance from its users and drivers, the disruptions this system faces in the communities in which it …
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Contemporary land use policy in Quito : towards a more equitable approach
… translated into more equitable approaches. In Quito where land rights and land use challenges persist, particularly from the vantage of historically marginalized communities and neighborhoods, the question of moving towards more equitable approaches to land use policies is an urgent one. To …
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Cosmopolitan comuneros: celebrating indigeneity through the appropriation of urbanity in the Quito Basin
… examines urban indigenous identity in the Quito Basin in contrast to essentialized representations of indigenousness that emanate from emerging multicultural state policy and prominent indigenous movements in Ecuador. Based on ethnographic research I conducted between 2003-2011, I focus on …
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The politics of implementation : towards a pro-poor land legalization policy in Quito
This thesis explores Quito's historical development of policies for informal neighborhood legalization to analyze the relationship between the national government, municipal council and low-income neighborhoods of the City. I follow Gilbert and Ward's reasoning of regarding the State as a political …
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Low-income communities in World Heritage Cities : revitalizing neighborhoods in Tunis and Quito
… out in two World Heritage Cities, Tunis and Quito. Findings indicate that low-income residents have indeed benefited from revitalization projects in both cases. Drawing from these experiences, this thesis reveals four common elements in the process through which this favorable outcome was …
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Geografías de conocimiento y poder: la construcción espacial de la Real Audiencia de Quito
… La construcción espacial de la Real Audiencia de Quito en el período colonial” analyzes the construction of the Real Audiencia de Quito as a political, economic, corporeal, and patriotic space. Quito refers to the city, the village, the reign, the province, the point of reference, and the …
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Indigeneity, Constitutional Changes and Urban Policies: Conflicting Realities in La Paz, Bolivia and Quito, Ecuador
… The thesis relies on La Paz (Bolivia) and Quito (Ecuador) as ‘illustrative cases’ to study the role of indigeneity in urban policies. As both La Paz and Quito represent capital cities, it was possible to approach government officials operating at multiple scales – international, national …
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The lily of Quito a cantata for soprano, flute, classical guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello & percussion
The Lily of Quito (2025) is a 33-minute cantata about Saint Mariana of Jesus (1618 – 1645), the patroness of Ecuador. It is scored for soprano, flute, classical guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, and percussion: wooden blocks, wind chimes, triangle, bass drum, glockenspiel, and crotales. …
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Ideology, History, and Action in Cotocollao, a Barrio of Quito, Ecuador (Andes, Urbanism, Marginality, Ethnicity, Symbolism)
… of meaning in Cotocollao, a sector of Quito, Ecuador. The thesis forwarded in this work is that social actors simultaneously shape and are shaped by forms of hegemonic ideological discourse which compete with nonhegemonic cultural beliefs and practices. I therefore look at public …
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"Sequencing infrastructure development in the ""barrios marginales"" of Quito, Ecuador: Policy findings of a hedonic price model"
"Policy makers in less developed countries have responded to the chronic shortage of low income housing by buying land, providing infrastructure, and reselling the land. Recently, this ""sites and services"" approach has been criticized by scholars who assert that the provision of infrastructure …
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Territories of scarcity and creativity: a critical view of informal settlements and emerging tactics under conditions of scarcity in Nairobi, Kenya and Quito, Ecuador
This thesis explores the processes through which scarcity is constructed in informal settlements and how conditions emerging within its limits gives way to particular socio-spatial phenomena and influence the emergence of self-organisation and creative strategies from a non-expert perspective. At …
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Estrategias de subsistencia en los Andes Septentrionales del Ecuador durante los periodos Formativo y Desarrollo Regional: los casos de Las Orquídeas (Ibarra) y Llano Chico (Quito).
… y otro al Desarrollo Regional (Llano Chico en Quito) (Soria, D. et al. 2021; Mosquera, A. 2023). El objetivo principal es conocer, a través del análisis del material óseo fáunico, el comportamiento humano en sus relaciones con la fauna en un mismo ecosistema, pero en dos periodos culturales …
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Producción de la Vivienda de Interés Social en el Hipercentro del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito. Estudio de caso del Plan de Uso y Gestión del Suelo (PUGS)
… en el Hipercentro del Distrito Metropolitano de Quito (DMQ). La revisión documental, la representación gráfica, la entrevista semiestructurada y la observación estructurada han sido las técnicas empleadas para la obtención de los datos empíricos necesarios para elaborar el análisis y desarrollo …
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Volcanic Activity and Human Occupation of the Northern Andes: The Application of Tephrostratigraphic Techniques to The Problem of Human Settlement in The Western Montana During The Ecuadorian Formative
… sites in the western montana and the Quito basin of Pichincha Province, Ecuador. Excavations in the Tulipe valley defined the Nueva Era Phase occupation, 1200-335 B.C., and the Tulipe Phase occupation, A.D. 800-1660, separated stratigraphically by a 2.5m column of culturally sterile …
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Estudio sobre las preferencias de los consumidores a la hora de elegir una estación de servicios en Quito, Ecuador y generación de un plan de marketing que aumente las ventas y la fidelización
Esta tesis solo está en formato papel por lo que se debe consultar en la propia Biblioteca Di Tella. La consulta se hace solo bajo reserva escribiendo a serviciosbiblio@utdt.edu.
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Prostitutes' Understanding of God
… by twelve prostitutes of the Street 24 de Mayo, Quito, Ecuador. This understanding is presented and analyzed from a psychological and theological perspective. A way to call the area of knowledge here described is phenomenology of religion. The interviews were conducted on December 15 through …
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