POST-PANDEMIC SCENARIOS OF THE URBAN REGENERATION IN DELTA AVENUE, GUAYAQUIL. Public space adaptability and disintegration of the equipment and services’ band

Abstract

Public space, an urban concept related to the city, since it’s there where it arose, is also the greatest transformation stage of the inhabited and experiential space in which the human being develops in its different contexts (Sánchez Padilla et al. 2022). Due to that precept, the present research paper focuses on the 530-meter Delta Avenue intervention, adjacent to the University of Guayaquil in Ecuador, whose first stage of regeneration concluded of the year 2020 is open for the use of public and private space by the university community; however, in post-pandemic scenarios and with a return to face-to-face activities, spontaneous adaptations of itinerant commerce arise in pedestrian areas that break up the equipment and services’ band that currently suffers an urban remanence, as it’s vital to evaluate the spatial demands with student predominance.

Keywords: Guayaquil, public space, pedestrian flows, commercial segregation.