LlactaLAB: espacio académico para pensar la sostenibilidad y la resiliencia de las ciudades del Ecuador y América Latina

Abstract

The city is a complex system with emerging patterns and properties that arise from the interactions between people and the environment they inhabit; on the other hand, sustainability is a paradigm in construction that must be contextualized to local realities; and, specifically, city sustainability, is a metabolic process of matter, energy, knowledge, social and cultural relations, whose result improves the quality of life of all its inhabitants without diminishing the functional capa-bilities of the system and without leaving anyone behind. With this background, the Research Group in Sustainable Cities (LlactaLAB) of the University of Cuenca (Ecuador), proposed interdisciplinary research that answers questions related to the complex city with the intention to contribute to the construction of public policy and to position Ecuadorian research in an international academic context. For the group, the study of built space, urban form, urban life and urban systems are particularly important.