Abstract

CEVALLOS-ARAUZ, Andrea. Unexpected effects of the gentrification process. La Floresta neighborhood (Quito). Bitácora Urbano Territorial [online]. 2018, vol.28, n.2, pp.25-33. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v28n2.70129.

This article aims to make a first approach to the limitations and possibilities of the gen-trification process in La Floresta neighborhood (Quito) covering the following three dimensions: population change, mutations in land uses, and the insertion of new alternative economies. In the beginning, a brief characterization of the gentrification processes in Quito, identifying its particularities. Then the transformations that La Floresta has experienced in the last years in terms of its social composition will be identified. Next, an emphasis is placed on changes in land uses derived from urban planning and real estate investment. In the end, the dynamics of insertion of creative classes and new economies in the neighborhood whose impact is manifested in changes of the economic structure will be described. It is concluded that from this new class and economies, low-income groups experience new processes of insertion in the labor market, managing to perceive a process not of displacement but of social hybridization, which allows the renewal and reactivation of the economy of the population.

Keywords : creative class; social hybridization; labor market; new economies.

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