CMND+CHNG: The Corridor/ Alejandra Ramirez and Elizabeth Medellín

CMND + CHNG

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TABLE OF CONTENT THE CITY THE CITY THE CITY

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6 LOCATION 8 CLIMATE 8 DEMOGRAPHY 9 EDUCATION 10 HISTORY 12 ECONOMY 13 HOUSING 14 MISUSE AND SHORTAGE OF RESOURCES 16 QUALITY OF LIFE 18 KEY AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY

THE CORRIDOR THE CORRIDOR THE CORRIDOR ..21 23 37 65 71 77 84

1-CAN WE MANAGE TO STAY? 2-CAN WE BECOME A COMMUNITY? 3-HOW DO WE REVIVE THE CITY? 4-CAN WE CONNECT THE CITY? 5-HOW DO WE USE OUR MOST VITAL RESOURCE? HOW WILL WE LIVE TOGETHER?

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In this chapter we are analyzing the urban and natural context of the area, and we are going in depth in the understating of the built environment and the common standards we found.

HE CITY THE CITY THE CI

EN The project is located right in the outskirts of the city center, less than a kilometer away from the public garden “La Alameda”. It is appending the Zaragoza avenue, that changes into the calzada of los arcos, which makes it one of the most important boulevards in Querétaro, and in turn reinforces the ideal location of the site.

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LOCATION Privileged Location Santiago de Queretaro is located in the central zone of the territory. The city is located in the extreme south west of the state of QuerĂŠtaro. It has a border with the State of Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Michoacan, Hidalgo and Guanajuato. It is located in a valley, among, the Cerro de Cimatario, adjoining at the south to the Cerro Gordo, and at the west, in the municipality of Corregidora. During the year there are a variety of climates, predominantly semi-dry.

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Land Area

The state has a total area of 11,687.7 km2, which accounts for 0.6% of the total surface area of the country.

Land Division

Queretaro is divided into 18 municipalities. Each of them has specific features that highlight its appeals, thus providing an interesting competitiveness that stands out among the other states of the country.

The Metropolitan Area of Queretaro is comprised of the municipalities of Corregidora, El Marques, Huimilpan and Queretaro. It covers 18% of the land area of the state.

Corregidora

Delegations

1. Cayetano Rubio 2. Centro Histórico 3. Epigmenio González 4. Felipe Carrillo Puerto 5. Félix Osores 6. Josefa Vergara y Hdez.

7. Sta Rosa Jáuregui

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Location, Source: own making from the book “El Nuevo Santiago de Querétaro” from Jorge Vazquez.

CLIMATE

DEMOGRAPHY

Climate Region

Age and Gender

In the south, temperate sub-humid climates predominate, while dry and semi-dry climates predominate in the central region of the state and, finally, the climates that dominate in the northeast region are warm and semi-warm sub-humid climates.

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Clima, source: own making from INEGI

Temperature

It has variations depending on the recording weather station within the state. In 2017, the station that recorded the lowest temperature was “El Capulin” dam, with 9.2 ºC, while the highest temperature was 29.9 ºC, obtained in Ayutla. The average temperature in Queretaro was 18.7 °C.

In the State of Queretaro, 51.5% inhabitants are women and 48.5% are men. In 2017, a population of 1,001,065 men and 1,062,083 women was estimated.

The median age of the population in the state is 26 years, while in 2010 it was 25, and in 2000 it was 21. At the municipal level, this Total Population According to the projection of the INEGI 2010 census, in relation to the dynamics of the municipalities, Queretaro is the municipality with the largest population since it concentrates 70% of the residents in the state, followed by Corregidora with 15%, El Marqués with 12%, and Huimilpan with 3%.

According to CONAPO projections during 2017, Queretaro became the fourth state with the lowest mortality rate, 5.0% (less than the national rate of 5.78%). The life expectancy of the total population in the State of Queretaro is expected to be 76.0 years in 2020 and 77.2 years in 2030.

During the projection period, the gap between men and women is expected to decrease from 5.5 to 4.8 years.

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18.7°C Climate, source: own making from Economic Yearbook of Querétaro 2018.

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Clima, source: own making from INEGI

EDUCATION Queretaro has 605,655 students enrolled in school from preschool to a graduate degree.

The scholars are enrolled in 4,048 schools across the state. 80.4% of the students go to public schools and only 19.6% go to private. The average level of education is 9.6, equivalent to almost completing secondary school.

According to COEPES, the number of student enrolled in superior school (university and above) has been rising exponentially due to the “triple helix plan”. There has been an effort to strengthen the access and quality of the educational services of the state and to promote the link between the educational institution and the productive sector.

Despite the rise in numbers, the ICRE-E (ranking of fulfilment of education quality per its acronym in Spanish) qualifies the education in the state as a 5.7/10, positioning in the 18th place in the nation. The low grade is due to the inadequate level of math learning, the lack of special attention to students in public schools, the shortage of social participation in the scholar council, and the absence of tutoring for new professors admitted in schools.

40% of junior high students lack basic math knowledge 80% of children under 3 have no access to preschool Only 40% of public schools have an active family participation 90% of children with special education needs get no special attention Only 30% of schools have universal access Upper Secondary Education During the school year 2017-2018, the upper secondary level registration in Queretaro was higher than 85,000 students who9 received instruction by 7,000 teachers in 244 schools.

Illiteracy Thanks to the increase of the coverage of the basic education and to the established actions by the state government, according to INEGI’s data in the Intercensal Survey 2015, the illiteracy rate in the entity decreased 5.3 percentage points between the years 2000 and 2015.

1 o u t o f e v e r y 2 0 p e o p l e a g e d 1 5 a n d o v e r, c a n n o t r e a d or write.

Education, source: own making from INEGI.

HISTORY Before the conquest of the Spaniards, Querétaro had indigenous settlements in “la cañada” and “el pueblito”. In 1531, the city of Querétaro was founded and its development started. The urban grid of the locals was irregular and spontaneous, whereas the new grid encouraged by the Spanish was orthogonal and organized; since the beginning the urban development of the city was mixed and complex.

In years to come the city kept growing around Plano ciudad Querétaro, S. XVIII-Fototeca Nacionl INAH plazas. In 1600, convents and temples started to appear and the population kept growing, this caused the city to be named the Between 1943 and 1967 there was an era of industrialization, which brought an increase “3rd in the realm” in 1671. in population and urban sprawl. There was an effort to bring new companies to the city, In the beginning of the XVII century, the 10 and agricultural areas were lost to industry Aqueduct was constructed. This important and residential spaces. The city was consolimonument served to bring water from the dated as an industrial center in 1985 and this glen of Hercules to the temple of the Holy led to an exponential growth in the metropolicross, where it was distributed to the city tan zone, both in area and population. through numerous fountains.

The location of Querétaro, between Zacatecas and Mexico City, led to the rapid growth of the city. Between 1700 and 1810, the economic wealth allowed a favorable urban development; however, the independence war broke the balance and disrupted the industrial development, which led to a decay in urban growth and population.

The first years of independence were marked by wars and epidemics that devastated the city. From 1880 on, “El porfiriato” initiated a phase of physical reconstruction of the city, as well as the economic, institutional and social rehabilitation.

In 1979 the first urban development plan was signed for Querétaro. The city started to erect as a modern city, where growth comes in the form of sprawl to large areas appointed to specific land uses, such as industrial zones and workers residential areas.

The earthquake of Mexico City in 1985 caused a demographic explosion in Querétaro that in turn, caused a new urban expansion.

Since 1990, the city is considered a metropolis, and from the year 2000 on, the growth of the city has been out of control growing exponentially and causing urban congestion and environmental problems.

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Arquería (Acueducto) de Querétaro, 19 Fototeca Nacionl INAH

ECONOMY Querétaro´s economy serves 2.2% of the national GDP, positioning in the 15th position of the country. According to the INEGI), economic growth in the state has reached a rate of 4.3% annually (in terms of GDP); a rate that is higher than the average in the nation.

The state´s gross domestic products (GDP) is divided per economic activities. The tertiary activities represent 57.6% of the GDP, mainly from commercial activities and transportation; The secondary sector embodies 39.98%, mainly from manufacturing industries. The primary activities constitute only 2.39% of the GDP, principally from livestock production and agriculture.

Although the tertiary sector is the most important one in the state in terms of GDP, the 12 most increased sector is the secondary. This is mostly due to the industrial activity in the metropolitan area, where the auto-part and aeronautics production and assembly stand out due to international companies like Airbus, Delta4 and Hitachi settling in the state and working with technical universities to educate future workers in their companies, increasing the level of specialized education in the city.

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GDP per economic activity in 2017, source: statistic yearbook of Querétaro 2018.

Despite the fact that Querétaro is not internationally popular, tourism is an important sector of the economy. The city attracted 2,422,000 tourists in 2017, and it has been voted several times the most visited non-beach destination in Mexico.

The strong economic growth the metropolis has increased the amount of job opportunities and risen the GDP of the state; however, there have been some negative consequences.The businesses in the territory are somewhat informal, and many of the employees lack social security. Although the state is the 5th in the country in income per capita (215,549 pesos), there is a mayor inequality in the distribution of income that has left a fourth of the population in poverty and margination.

Aside from that, the rapid growth in the industrial sector has left the municipality without farmable areas. This, in combination with the inadequate management of resources and the waste of water leaves Querétaro with a mayor environmental problem. (Implan, Q500)

HOUSING

Housing Financing (INFONAVIT)

The National Housing Commission (CONAVI) counts with a registry of 2017 with 11,416 units in the entity from which 9,186 are horizontal dwellings and 2,230 vertical dwellings, all of them under the concept of subsidized housing.

In 2017, INFONAVIT authorized 533,792 credits at a national level; 2,668,960 job positions were maintained. The benefited population due to the granted credits was 2,062,693 persons and the invesment amount increased 197,022 million pesos. In Queretaro, the institution granted 16,409 credits during 2017, for an amount of more than 9,320 million pesos benefiting 66,013 persons.

Services

19.5% 80.5% Ve r t i c a l d w e l l i n g

Horizontal dwelling

Housing, source: own making from Economic Yearbook of QuerĂŠtaro 2018.

According to the INEGI (2015), there are approximately 533,596 private housings; this number is almost 17.5% higher than the obtained in 2010 increasing to 454,224. In absolute terms, this number increased 338,195 units in the last quarter of the century.

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Coverage in 2015 Housing, source: own making from Economic Yearbook of QuerĂŠtaro 2018.

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Regarding basic services with which housings in the State of Queretaro count with electricity has the highest advances since the year 2000. The availability of the electric power in inhabited private housings grew until it arrived to 99.1% coverage in 2015.

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Source: National Institute of Statistics and Geography. Intercensus Enquiry, 2015.

MISUSE AND SHORTAGE OF RESOURCES When cites grow, they often go over productive and biodiverse land, creating important changes in ecosystems. The urban settlements are growing faster than the population; in Querétaro, the rate of growth of the urban area from 2000-2005 was 12.5% annually, where the population growth was 2.9%. the disparity in growth has led to an exponentially decreased density.

If the city continues going in the same direction, the decreased density will make the services more expensive and inadequate, which will affect the quality of life of the citizens.

No permeation leads to 14 flooding in lower areas

URBAN SPRAWL Nonpermeable surfaces means no absortion of water to the subsoil

Increase in distance= more km of pipes to supply water

Increased loss of water to clandestine users and leaks

The availability of drinking water is the mayor problem in the metropolitan area The average annual rainfall in the city of Queretaro is low, only 510 annual mm, concentrated mostly in summer months and presenting a considering variation over the years.

The quality of water in the different aquifers of the region is acceptable, however the uppermost layer is highly contaminated due to the uncontrolled and untreated discharge of the sewage. Therefore, 85% of the city’s water supply comes from the aquifer “Valle de Querétaro”.

There is an over exploitation of the aquifers in Querétaro because the extraction of water surpasses the recharge of water by 30%, leading to a 4m annual descend of the aquifer.

Aside from that, the demand of water is higher than the supply (in liters per second) which shows that there is shortage of the resource. Moreover, there is a loss of almost 50% of the resource during distribution.

53% charged volume Volume of water extracted

Leaks -33%

Theft -10%

Uncharged -4%

Loss of water in percentage. Source: Perrusquía, 2003

Another problem is the generation of residual waters (70% untreated), full of contaminants and particles, which are not separated from rainfall water thus contaminating higher volumes of water.

The territorial expansion of the city is increasing faster than the population, rapidly consuming permeable and productive land.

To ensure the sustainability in the city, there should be an increase in density and a reduction in water consumption from primary economic activity.

Poor air quality due to the excessive vehicular fleet Although the air quality is not bad, since the levels of atmospheric contaminants are lower than the allowed, the main cause of air contamination in Querétaro is the excessive vehicular fleet, both collective and personal.

The increased pollutants emission has been due to several reasons, like: - road saturation - Longer travel distance - Poor transportation system - Lack of viable alternatives to car use.

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Source: SEDESU, 2004

73% of the atmospheric pollutants come from the vehicles.

In the past decade, the growth of the vehicular fleet in the city was 67.8%

Querétaro´s urban growth . Source: Implan

QUALITY OF LIFE Human Development Index The HDI, which is based on life expectancy, education and per capita income is used to measure the human development of countries, states or municipalities. As reported by the United Nations Development Program, Queretaro is located in the “High Human Development� tier with a ratio of 0.790, just above Jalisco (0.788)

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549,681 Insured Workers in the Entity

94,819 Minors with School Breakfast Low Level of Social Backwardness

643,939 Students Registered in the School Year 2017-2018

36,512 Teachers in the School Year 2017-2018

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3,720 Sports and Recreation Facilities

292,000 Supported Young People in the Entity

Oficina de InvestigaciĂłn en Desarrollo Humano, source: http://www.mx.undp.org/ Migration, source: Economic Yearbook of QuerĂŠtaro 2018.

KEY AREAS OF OPPORTUNITY A prosper city is one where people realize their aspirations, ambitions and other intangible aspects of their life; where they find wellness, and every condition to find happiness, and where the individual and collective wellbeing rises. It is the place where you find every basic necessity, there are sufficient services and wealth, and you can find every public service needed to for common life.

Prosper cities are judged by their status in productivity, sustainability, infrastructure, life quality, equity and social inclusion, and governance.

Reduced density Poor clean energy production at homes Low access to quality education Libraries and internet Mobility infrastructure th favors automobiles Lack of universal infrastructure

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Economic inequity Median income Segregation

High levels of CO2 Poor management and treatment of residual water Lack of clean energy

Poverty Large socio-economic gap Gender inequity

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Corruption Lack of transparency Distrust of the government.

Debt Urban development plan Little access to health infrastructure Inadequate education level Violence Insufficient public space Poor ratio of green area per capita

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The aqueduct of the city is the first thing you find if you do a google search of “Querétaro”. the corridor links together the oldest public garden of the location, “la Alameda”, and the aqueduct. although it holds two of the most recognizable symbols of the city, it does not portray the values it should and it fails to link the neighborhoods it withholds. being so iconic, by better designing this corridor, it holds the power to impact and permeate the changes across the city.

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ES El acueducto de querétaro es una de las primeras cosas que aparecen cuando uno busca la ciudad en google. El corredor une el jardín más antiguo de querétaro “La Alameda” y el acueducto, pero a pesar de alojar a dos grandes símbolos de la ciudad, no refleja los valores de esta, y no une los vecindarios que la rodean.

Siendo un corredor tan icónico, un buen rediseño de este tendría el poder de impactar y permear en el resto de la ciudad.

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1-CAN WE MANAGE TO STAY? 70% of the people on the corridor told us they wouldn’t sell their house to a real estate agent, even if it was a good deal. However, the price of the rent in the area, the lack of space for new housing and the growing high-income neighborhoods surrounding the corridor pose a threat for the people to come, especially since the location of the corridor is so privileged.

MANY HOUSES HAVE BEEN BOUGHT, IM TELLING YOU, YOU´LL SEE THE END OF SAN FRANCISQUITO

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DENSITY 0-30 p/ha

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111-180 p/ha 181- 230 p/ha 231< p/ha 1:6500

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SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL High income medium income

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SOCIOECONOMIC LEVEL- LOT SIZE We analyzed the lots covered by an area of 9 ha, the same of “La Alameda” in San Francisquito and Carretas. It´s evident that the trace is radically different as well as the proportion of the lots, which is a materialization of the socioeconomic level of their residents.

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$1.62 MDP 250m2 $6,480MXN $438,500 MXN 70m2 $6,264 MXN

$2.18 MDP 180m2 $12,100MXN

$6 MDP 265m2 $23,018 MXN $2.48 MDP 200m2 $12,400MXN

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The corridor is mostly residential in terms of landuse. The style, size of terrain and condition of the housing offer, changes drastically depending on the neighborhood; however, the price per square meter remains similar.

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$2.45MDP 135m2 $18,148 MXN $4 MDP 265m2 $15,686 MXN

$4.5 MDP 264m2 17,045 MXN

$3.63 MDP 160m2 $22,687 MXN

$3.8 MDP 198m2 19,119MXN

$3.07 MDP 230m2 $13,348 MXN

$1.92 MDP 132m2 $14,545MXN

$2.8 MDP 170m2 $16,470 MXN

$3.29 MDP 268m2 $12,276MXN

$4.35MDP 280m2 $15,535 MXN

$4.35MDP 280m2 $15,535 MXN $3.8 MDP 350m2 $10,857MXN

$5.8MDP 337m2 $17,210 MXN $4.25MDP 418m2 $15,461 MXN

$3.95 MDP 233m2 $16,952MXN $4.5 MDP 220m2 $20,455MXN

$2.45 MDP 135m2 $18,148MXN $8.5MDP 491m2 $17,311 MXN

$6 MDP 400m2 $15,000 MXN

$3.8 MDP 350m2 10,857 MXN

$1.99MDP 339m2 $11,764 MXN

$4.1 MDP 240m2 $17,083MXN $4.35 MDP 220m2 $19,772MXN

$5.39 MDP 318m2 $16,949 MXN

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$3.72 MDP 248m2 $14,827MXN

$4.5 MDP 365m2 $12,328MXN $4.3 MDP 290m2 $14,827MXN

HOUSING PRICE $13,170/sqm $14,093/sqm $13,615/sqm $12,533/sqm 0

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Gentrification The Corridor has an excellent location, very close to the city center and to the mayor avenues in the city. It is also surrounded by big developments of rich people, one of them is right in the heart of the corridor. Therefore, there is a considerable fear of the future and whether or not the neighborhoods will be gentrified.

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2-CAN WE BECOME A COMMUNITY? The corridor has many different neighborhoods, were people are close and actually know their neighbors; however, that bond does not extend beyond their block. This lack of community as a whole bring about many problems, including insecurity.

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Percieved problems We asked people to tell us what were the mayor problems they sensed in their community, and 76% told us insecurity was one of the worst. We asked them what was the reason for said insecurity; some people blamed society as a whole, or the police force, however most blamed the youth, and specifically the lack of education they had and the unemployment.

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InsecurityResidential theft low

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This map may be a little misleading, most of the areas that have low residential theft happen to have no housing whatsoever.

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InsecurityBusiness theft low

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InsecurityAuto theft

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InsecurityCondensed map low

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We can see in this map that the perceived insecurity matches the real insecurity. The neighborhood with least theft occurrence is Loma dorada, possibly due to the topography serving as an edge.

We can see that bosques del acueducto and jardines de Querétaro has the highest theft rate in the corridor, which matches it being the place whit higher income; it is seen as “desirable”.

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The corridor is similar in age distribution by neighborhood, however carretas specifically is the one with the smallest children and youth population, which in the long run may pose a problem of empty housing and gentrification. On the contrary, san Francisquito has almost 50% of people under 30 and the lowest elder population, this may cause insufficient housing in the future, and given that there are no activities for the elder now, when the growing population ages, it will become even more of a problem.

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Education institutes and children correlation Kindergarden (K) Elementary school (E) K+E E + JH Junior high school (JH) High school (HS) E + JH + HS K + E + JH + HS Children 0-14 distribution (see page 55)

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Services/ Activities Museum Library Religion health services shopping Theatre Monuments and plazas Movie theater Police station

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3-HOW DO WE REVIVE THE CITY? The corridor, specially near the city center has a high retail activities, and mixed-use housing; however, these activities end with the working shift so the neighborhoods become unsafe at night. On the other hand, from carretas to the east, the retail activity is reserved to the corridor faรงade only and it is limited as well. Bernardo Quintana is mostly a comitial corridor, however being part of the analyzed area, it works more as an edge and not really as a part of the corridor.

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WHAT WE NEED ARE MORE ACTIVITIES FOR THE ELDER, SOMEONE NEEDS TO TAKE CARE OF US

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Landuse H1 & H2 - Housing 100-200 hab/ha CS - Trade & Services CU - Urban Corridor HCS2 - Mix-used & Housing 200 hab/ha

HMCS1 - Mix-used & Monumental Housing100 H3 - Housing 300 hab/ha E - Equipment ER - Recreational Equipment AV - Green Space EI - Infrastructure Equipment ZM - Mix-used HMCS2 - Mix-used & Monumental Housing 200 hab/ha

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COMERCIAL ACTIVITIES Retail trade Wholesale trade Food services Health services Other services Associations Bank Juridical services Production and manufacturing Public entity Parking lot Repair services

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4-CAN WE CONNECT THE CITY? Alameda- Arcos is a corridor designed for automobile use. When you walk by it you don’t feel safe because the sidewalks are mostly poorly designed and maintained, and if you have a special ability then you can’t walk by them since 85% of them are not universally accessible.

Although most of the people we asked use public transport as their main mode of mobility, the cars are favored and so it is no wonder that traffic is perceived by 76% as one of the worst problems in their neighborhood.

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THERE IS AN OLD SAYING IN THIS CITY... A MAN OF WORD, A WOMAN OF HONOR AND A SIDEWALK FOR TWO, WILL NEVER EXIST IN QUERETARO, NOT EVEN FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

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5-HOW DO WE USE OUR MOST VITAL RESOURCE? Water is the scarcest resource in Querétaro. The aquifer of the valley of Querétaro, our main source of water is highly being abused, due to the 70% more water taken from it than the one that’s being recharged. By 2021, according to the director of the state’s water commission, Querétaro will be in an intense water crisis due to population growth and water mismanagement.

On the other hand, when it rains, due to the abuse in pavement and therefore the lack of absorption spaces, we have areas that face flooding, endangering the life of our citizens.

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Analyzed streets Alameda- Arcos Bernardo Quintana Constituyentes Circunvalaciรณn La acordada Plateros Corregidora 21 de marzo Insurgentes

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BERNARDO QUINTANA JUAN CABALLERO Y OCIO AV DE LA ACORDADA PLATEROS 1830

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We can observe here the corridors that go from east to west only, arrangen by position. We can spot the topographic depressions in the area, that pose the biggest flood threats.

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Analyzed streets slopes (water flow) Slope direction

Water accumulation, flooding threat zone

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HOW WILL WE LIVE TOGETHER IF WE KEEP LIVING THE WAY WE DO? “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay” -SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR”

THE POOR CAN LIVE THERE

GO AWAY SORRY, NO WATER AVAILABLE

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BE PL ST AC N E LIV E T W E O

GREEN MAP

SAN PANCHO WONT SELL OUT

CONCHEROS MUSEUM

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STARTING AT $4,000,000

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Including everyone especially : allowing and accommodating people who have historically been excluded (as because of their race, gender, sexuality, or ability) UN goal 11

VISION 2040 Alameda Arcos is a lively corridor where everyone lives together in community. They share a sense of belonging to the place, they build lasting relationships and are comfortable expressing their own identities. the corridor is equally inclusive to every mode of transportation, every race, culture, gender and socio-economic level in the corridor, and everyone who will come in the future.

Target

SENSE OF HOME AND BELONGING

Multiple research shows that by increasing the sense of belonging to one’s community, where activities of daily living occur; there is a better mental and physical health, employment and educational outcomes and an increase in safety, engagement and collective resilience.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES, SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TO MOVE TO BETTE EMPLOYMENT, RESPECT TO OWN´S IDENTITY

OPPORTUNITIES TO RECREATE AND NETWORK BEYOND CLOSE CIRCLE, SENSE OF SAFETY AND RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY

SUITABLE EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION, HEALTH AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT OPPORTUNITIES

AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND FOOD SECURITY

INCLUSIVE CITY MASLOWS HIERARCHY OF NEEDS

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HOW WILL WE LIVE TOGETHER? Corridor Master plan

Plaza

Community center

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High School

24hr market

Tram stop Plaza

Public library

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Health Clinic

Trades school

Affordable housing units

Community enhancing program

New public transportation with tram line

Enhance economical activity

Green park connections