Social conflicts in the configuration of the Quito Metropolitan Area in the period 1992-2010

Análisis de las luchas contestatarias en Quito durante el proceso de conformación del distrito metropolitano entre los años 1992-2010, enfatizando en las relaciones heterónomas con el poder, los conectores culturales de las organizaciones sociales y el ciclo del movimiento barrial considerando el peso relativo de los barrios en la conformación del poder y la ciudad.The text interprets the struggles would social answer in Quito during the process of forming the metropolitandistrict between 1992-2010, it highlights the heterónomas relations with the regional power,cultural connections between social movements and the hegemony of local elites, and disputes overthe urban public spaces. The starting cycle, boom and bust of the capital neighborhood movement isanalyzed, considering the relative weight of the neighborhood in shaping the regional power in the city,which determines the episodic role of neighborhood organizations and their limitations in the dispute ofthe city colonial-modernity