Scales of Gentrification in intermediary cities: A challenge for Ecuadorian territorial planning

Abstract

Intermediate cities have specific characteristics due to their size, population, economy, and regional dynamics. The metropolises represent poles of attraction that do not allow the development of the surrounding villages. These poles absorb peripheral accentuations during their boundary expansion processes. Not far from this phenomenon, it is observed that intermediate cities act similarly in front of smaller towns, having a repeated effect than their higher similes. The relationship between villages leads to emigration and population immigration and can be confused with gentrification processes. For this reason, it is necessary to differentiate the original inhabitants of neighborhoods or areas that have been displaced from those who have preferred to change their place of residence by free will. The various study scales are directed towards understanding the phenomenon within a block, neighborhood, sector, city, and finally territory, with the desire to understand the gentrifying phenomenon's propagation speed.

Sediment provenance signal of the discontinuous retroarc topography in the northern Andes during the Early Cretaceous

“…These features are interpreted as associated with fluvial to tidally influenced estuarine and shoreface depositional settings (Mora et al, 1998, 2010; and references therein). New and published palynological constraints support a contemporary Aptian‐Albian accumulation of the Caballos Formation in the CPB and the southern UMB (Barrio & Coffield, 1992 and references therein), and the Hollín Formation in the Oriente Basin (Ordóñez et al, 2006). See a detailed stratigraphic analysis of the Caballos Formation in the northern CPB in the Supporting Information ST2.…”