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Cueva Ortiz, Sonia
Knowledge Society and Built Spaces in Ecuador and the Italian Veneto: State-of-Art
Guiding Principles of the Contemporary City
2023
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Cueva Ortiz, Sonia
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Ordóñez-León A.
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Tello-Toapanta Z.
Following the international agreements established at the World Summit on the Information Society, organized by the UN and the Digital Agenda for Latin America and the Caribbean, Ecuador, and the Italian Veneto invest resources destined to transform the production matrix towards knowledge. Among the strategies they use are training human talent and constructing spaces that promote innovation and knowledge production. Thus, clusters are formed in different areas, urban districts are formed, or cities based on knowledge, as in the Ecuadorian case. Spaces that change and impact the usual functioning of the city. This article aims to build a state-of-the-art advanced knowledge society focused on the built spaces of Ecuador and Veneto. For this, three case studies are selected: the Yachay Knowledge City, considered an emblematic project, Loja as a canton in which the change in the production matrix induced by the National Development Plan is reviewed; and Verona as a representative case of the Italian Veneto, which houses knowledge clusters and an interpret part of the European corridor. A mixed methodology supported by a qualitative documentation review from the corresponding governments and scientific articles was used. In addition, a bibliometric review is made using 353 articles obtained from the Scopus database. Advances are checked against your regional standards. Built spaces are found, although not always in accordance with the projected results. The advances in both cases are below the regional, Latin, and European average, respectively. © IJASEIT is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
2022
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Cueva Ortiz, Sonia
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Casals A
The rapid development of information and communication technologies (ICT), awareness of climate change, the widening of economic and socio-spatial gaps and globalization, have triggered the development of new theories and principles of the city. Thus appear the city of information, knowledge, the smart city, the sustainable city, and theories of the current city which is not framed of any of the above. These theories are cause and effect of cities that are built under these names, supported by global agreements and networks that follow their development. This study aims to identify the principles that from the various theories contribute to the construction of the contemporary city, the objective being to identify and define the principles that sustain the contemporary city, separating them from the actors and interests that could be taking over one or another concept and aligning itself with the valuation of the city as a product at the service of the Society as a whole. A review of the state of the art is made, with a bibliometric exploratory phase supported by the Vosviewer software and another qualitative phase reviewing (29) articles published in the journals with the greatest impact according to Scimago rank. The results show that many principles overlap, while some components less treated at a general level should be strengthened, revealing the possibility of channeling and joining forces. This work makes it possible to advance in the analysis of a city that responds to current challenges, and channels the advances developed from the various areas. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.