Porosidad y forma urbana en ciudades hispano andinas del Peru: horizontes urbanísticos

Abstract

The Andean cities of Peru originated and consolidated profusely from the European thought of the sixteenth century characterized by its pendular trajectory between the statements of Christianity and Renaissance ideals, confronted and brought to the outline in territories that, by their characteristics demanded a memory of their complexes preexistence; In spite of this, they contain in their configuration a series of visible elements of syncretism and extraordinary acculturation. In this context, it is important to analyze the importance of porosity as an urban quality of these historic cities in relation to the underlying urban form in each warp, amalgamated for centuries, with an incidence in identity arrays within the culture produced in these three case of study cities. The work sketches transversally the characteristics in which human activities run in these three nuclei with the purpose of inserting the subject within the current discussion by rethinking urbanism from its cardinal essence that demands a more humanized habitat.