As a result of strong immigration waves and a lack of proper urban policies, 9 million Peruvians inhabi and work in expanding, low-income, water-stressed coastal slums. The slum’s precariousness and vulnerability in which they live is partially caused by static notions of its urban framework. Expanding over the Lomas and desert ecosystems but neglecting their own systemic dynamism. Thus,
this thesis will focus in the role of Landscape Urbanism, through the ecosystemical analysis of ground conditions as a point of departure to propose new urban strategies that mitigate and benefit from the social and environmental dynamics of its territory. The cases where these solutions may be applied is in Santa Maria Ravine in the periphery of Southern Lima, Perú.
