Las componentes ambientales en el diseño urbano: Lima - Perú.

Contemporary cities increasingly tend to relate to pedestrians in a more evident way, integrating bioclimatic design strategies to provide a more sustainable and livable city. The relationship between environment and built-in habitat in the history of humanity has been essential since natural resources were the only ones available, until the last century. The excessive urban cementification has once again placed a new challenge before the professionals of the sector: considering the environmental components in the urban planning and design steps. For this reason, sunlight, wind, humidity and vegetation are not simply ornaments and decorations of the city, but become the main factors in determining road axes, height of buildings, public spaces and green areas. The case study focuses on Lima, the capital of Peru which despite the great efforts made during the postpandemic period, turns out to be one of the cities with the greatest problems in considering bioclimatic design as a key instrument for its regeneration. The own characteristics of a site, such as the latitude and prevailing winds, among others, have been little considered in the decades, giving the population a city that lacks large parks, that is not protected from sunlight especially in summer and that does not eliminate high humidity, but it seems almost to raise the problem to an insoluble level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]