Concurrencia de valores, conceptos de ciudad y la fallida Riobamba ilustrada de Darqueaensayo metodológico

Abstract

Concerning the construction, growth, and anew construction of cities in Spanish America, in particular taking as a case study Darquea’s project of a new Riobamba, here is expounded an essay to apply a threefold conception of values —communicative, economic, and social— each one of them divided into desirable (desiderata) and imperatives: norms, constraints or duties. The development of three concepts of city (taxonomic, mereological and reticular), which mutually implicate city and territory, is aided by the adoption of Burt G. Wilder’s morpho-teleological definitional formula to understand the notion of an illustrated city within its context. Concurrence —harmonic of conflictive between values implicated in the desires and requirements of the acting subjects— is studied regarding its influence on the dismissal of Darquea’s radial project and the execution of the more traditional hypodamic model.