Perception Of The Regeneration Of The Public Space Of The Historical Center Of Guatemala City

Abstract

This article presents a first approach to the perception that the population has about
the Historic Center of Guatemala City and the urban regeneration projects that the
Municipality of Guatemala has implemented on public space in the last ten years, in
order to know and evaluate the incidence and the achievements achieved by these in
the collective imagination, to be the basis for what should be improved in the current
and future urban interventions of the city.
As urban regeneration is an integral and sustainable process, which interrelates urban aspects with physical-environmental, economic and social; It is very important
to carry out evaluation instruments on each of these aspects and the scope of their
objectives; being the social aspect the most difficult to determine because it is more
subjective and intangible. That is why it seeks to identify the impacts and externalities achieved with this class of projects from human perception, through applying qualitative methods, such as Perception Surveys and Mind Maps; that somehow complement the commonly used quantitative methods.