The urban green index focused on the design of green roofs integrated into the urban area of Guayaquil

Abstract

The urban green index of the city of Guayaquil is one of the lowest in Latin America, bordering on 2.54 m2 per inhabitant, which is far from the minimum recommended by the WHO of 9m2 per inhabitant, which significantly affects air conditions and quality. of general life of an integral society. This scarcity of vegetation is a product of the rise of commercial and informal development in the city, which only has urban green areas on main avenues or streets. The objective of this scientific article is to increase the urban green index by integrating green roof models in buildings in the urban area of Guayaquil, thus configuring an interconnected network of green roofs that rethinks the urban design of the city. Two types of methodology are used, qualitative based on the study of urban regulations and a green infrastructure approach georeferenced in ArcGIS to obtain percentages and quantitative data for the identification and proposal of new urban green areas in the city of Guayaquil. In conclusion, it is obtained that by proposing a green roof for every ten buildings in the urban area of Guayaquil, the concentrated green index can be raised to up to 5.54 m2 per inhabitant, which would be closely aligned with the minimum allowed by the WHO of 9m2 per inhabitant.