The International Mariscal Sucre Airport (NAIQ) as an element in the crack in the rural-urban metabolism

Authors

  • María Susana Robledo Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLaCSo Ecuador

Keywords:

Metabolism, airport, infrastructure, Quito.

Abstract

Based on an in-depth review of the literature on city theories and documentation on urban growth, a dialogue is proposed with neo-Marxist authors, particularly those belonging to ecological Marxism and Marxist geography, with the aim of addressing the phenomenon of urbanization and its direct relationship with ecological changes. The problem of the metabolic breakdown and the rural-urban tensions in its different phases: appropriation, transformation, circulation, transport, consumption, excretion of materials. From the context of the world-system and according to the strategies of global capital to produce a certain type of city, this paper takes as a case study the expansion of the city of Quito towards the surrounding valleys, specifying the urban metabolic dynamics produced by the construction of the Mariscal Sucre International Airport (NAIQ).

Author Biography

María Susana Robledo, Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, FLaCSo Ecuador

María Susana Robledo, Maestría de Investigación en Estudios Socioambientales FLaCSo Ecuador, maestrante, msusanarobledo@gmail.com



Licenciada en Sociología por la Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Actualmente cursando la Maestría de Investigación en Estudios Socioambientales en FlaCSo Ecuador. Sus temas de investigación se centran en las consecuencias ambientales y culturales de la expansión urbana en sobre territorios rurales.

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Published

2021-05-05

Issue

Vol 11, No 1 (2021)

Section

Papers

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