The changing structure of petty production in Ecuador

Land Use Diversification in the Elite Residential Sector of Quito, Ecuador

“…In particular, in the 1975-1981 period of transition of Mariscal Sucre from elite residential sector to fashionable residential/business district, more than 45 percent of buildings used for administration, transportation, commerce, or multiple uses changed function. Indeed, the locational instability of businesses in the elite residential sector rivaled that observed by Middleton (1989) among small businesses in the historic center of Quito. The diversification of land use, the remarkable volatility of business location, and the changing personality of Mariscal Sucre all support the Crowley hypothesis of complexity in Latin American urban land use patterns.'…”

“…The historic center retained a great deal of formal and informal commerce serving low-and middle-income consumers. Petty production survived in inner-city workshops (Middleton 1989), and the unique colonial architecture continued to attract throngs of tourists. Nonetheless, from the 1970s onward, upper-scale business activities catering to affluent automobile owners in Quito were predominantly associated with elite neighborhoods adjacent to Avenida Diez de Agosto, including Mariscal Sucre.…”

“…Institutional land uses (churches, schools, hos-pitals) were relatively stable; the misleading low diagonal probability value of 59 percent was depressed by reconstruction of a large hospital in the northeastern sector of the neighborhood. Middleton (1989) has described the remarkable locational instability of petty production in the historic center of Quito. The 1975-1981 transition matrix indicates that location of enterprise also is unstable in the modern upperscale scenario of Mariscal Sucre.…”

The Conservation Cycle in the Cities of the Developing World: Implications for Authenticity and Policy

“…This has certainly been the case in Buenos Aires, Caracas, and Sao Paulo (Hardoy and Dos Santos, 1984), although not in the provincial city of Puebla, Mexico (Jones and Varley, Downloaded by [University Library Utrecht] at 07:16 17 March 2015 1994). The surviving historic centers are dominated by informal-sector commercial and artisan activities (Middleton, 1989). Their strength partly reflects the reliance of developing-country urban populations on a public transport system that focuses on the historic center.…”