El ejercicio efectivo del derecho a la ciudad de las y los trabajadores informales en el Centro Histórico del cantón Cuenca: periodo 2022-2023

The city, as a spatial framework for the daily activities of millions of people around the world, contains several underlying social contradictions in its current configuration. The access to public space constitutes the central theme of this research, which examines the exercise of the "Right to the City" and its lack of consensus regarding its meaning. In the present normative context, which promotes a welfare state model and the protection of social and economic rights through the Constitution, there is a noticeable deterioration in social public policies that directly affects the access to rights, particularly for those engaged in the informal sector of the economy who rely on the use of public space for their direct subsistence.