Transit-Oriented Development in Lima: A TOD strategy and design for mass transit nodes of Metro Line 1

Transit-Oriented Development in Lima: A TOD strategy and design for mass transit nodes of Metro Line 1

Van Doorn, J.S.

Fernández-Maldonado, A.M. (mentor)
Van der Spek, S.C. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Urbanism

Explorelab

2014-01-23

Since the 1950s the city of Lima, capital of Peru, has drastically grown both in size and inhabitants due to a process of rapid urbanization, by which the city has expanded horizontally in an informal way. Informal settlements have occupied peripheral areas, producing a centre-periphery pattern of urban development. Because the activity centres remained in the city centre informal settlement dwellers have to travel for long hours to the centre to work. For more than 20 years Lima has been without mass public transport due to inattention from governmental entities. As a result an extensive informal public transport system established itself. This transit network has grown in amounts of vehicles, routes, competitiveness and an unsafe transit environment over the last years. The entire city is well connected by informal public transport, making it difficult for single mass public transport corridors like Metro Line 1 to compete against the inefficient informal system. Governmental entities of Lima are just starting to implement mass public transport corridors within the city, but a lot of adjustments of the urban environment have to be made to regain lost urban space and ensure the transit efficiency of public transport. The objective of this graduation project is to develop an approach to tackle public transport related problems of a large city in a developing country, characterized by high levels of informality and socio-spatial segregation, using Transit-Oriented Development. This strategy focuses on the analysis and improvement of Lima’s metro line corridor that started operation in 2012, linking the historic city centre, the modern centre and informal peripheries of the city. This approach aims to create different urban transit nodes typologies and urban development opportunities based on theory. The obtained typologies and opportunities have a high potential to develop and integrate the mass public transport network, optimizing land-use efficiency creating and recovering the adjacent urban space. A general vision is developed with three urban design interventions of three metro station areas, which are considering the most significant and representative three different urban patterns of Lima. This thesis can be considered as an exemplary and results are applicable to other and future urban transit nodes in Lima and other similar metropolitan cities in developing countries.

Transit-Oriented Development
informal settlements
redevelopment transit nodes
social-spatial fragmentation
social inequality
Lima Peru

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:e47901c0-8444-4528-9bc5-fc390a433fbb

2014-01-21

Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2014 Van Doorn, J.S.