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Urban law and sustainable cities: Reasonable analysis of the case in the Republic of Ecuador

José Albert Márquez, Jaime Alfredo Alarcón Zambrano

Article ID: 1823
Vol 1, Issue 1, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/ec.v1i1.1823

Received: 26 November 2019; Accepted: 20 January 2020; Available online: 4 February 2020; Issue release: 30 June 2020

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The purpose of this article is to analyse the current relationship between urban law and sustainable cities, based on concepts of a general nature, the case of Ecuador. In this regard, the current reality in Ecuador is a model, because there are a limited number of appropriate legal regulations, the lack of practice in the academic community of urban planning law, the lack of policies to implement these regulations and, in your case, sanctions for non-compliance. From another perspective, this situation provides the possibility to propose real policies conducive to sustainable urban development. Finally, the purpose of this study is to test the following hypothesis, that is, the laws and regulations of the urban law are not truly autonomous, enough, consistent and appropriate, and can not guarantee the sustainable urban development. We will take the realistic temporal and spatial framework of Ecuador as a reference.

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city; urbanization; urban planning; urban law; sustainable cities

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