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Topic: Accessible urban spaces
Working thesis: accessibility issues in public and private spaces of Guayaquil
Rationale and purpose:
Most of the Latin American cities are finding that their oldtraditional urban areas have a lack on accessible spaces for all, in Europe there is a concern of this and they are trying to solve it implementing techniques and ideas for old traditional and newdeveloped urban areas.
The main subject is to prove and solve issues on accessible public spaces in Guayaquil and informs the city, what should be the main concern and how to act against it.

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Urban sprawl, density, and accessibility
Abstract
Suburban sprawl is often criticized on the grounds that it results in low density land uses. A model is developed and calibrated in which aplanning agency can influence the sequencing and densities of two phases of suburban development on the urban fringe. In this model an Ogawa-Fujita accessibility function plays an important role indetermining rents per unit of built space and hence land values at any location. If the planner opts for a continuous rather than discontinuous development pattern, the result is lower densities buthigher property values. It is concluded that planning efforts to limit sprawl are more consistent with tax base considerations than with concerns over density.http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01434259
Indicators of urban accessibility: Theory and application
* J. G. Koenig
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Abstract
The concept of accessibility and its related indicators have been in use for a long time, withstill diverging interpretations of their significance and formulation. In this paper, a review is made of various existing theoretical bases, with special emphasis on recent behavioural approaches. Itis suggested that this theoretical framework now allows a better appraisal of accessibility indicators and precise recommendations are proposed for their practical formulation and use. Various...