One major contribution of the Metropolitan Lima Urban Development Plan 2035 (PLAM2035) to the history of planning is its innovative strategy to integrate the city’s open spaces and archaeological heritage within a network of green corridors for the enjoyment of the community. Most of Lima’s architectural heritage is located in the periphery of the metropolis, linked to river valleys and mountains, sites that have been converted into landfills or wastelands threatened by informal urbanisation. However, these places foster the potential to become ecological and cultural assets that help in connecting the metropolitan ecosystems with Andean heritage, to promote the protection of archaeological sites, tourism, national and international research activities, and community integration. This study seeks to analyse the PLAM2035’s proposal regarding the integration between the System of Ope...

The purpose of this research is to analyse the landscape and archaeoastronomical heritage of Ñaña, Lurigancho-Chosica, which subsists in the interstices of the contemporary urban periphery of Metropolitan Lima. Despite the state’s neglect and unregulated urban growth in its surroundings, it holds many unexploited attributes. The Union-Ñaña archaeological zone was inhabited since pre-Hispanic times by specialists in the observation of astronomical phenomena called yañac, who were linked to the cult of the snow peak Pariacaca. The latter was the most important apu from the Central Andes of Peru, according to the mythical 'Manuscript of Huarochirí' from the 16th century. Thus, the study of the relationship between landscape and astronomical alignments (a key aspect of the Andean worldview) is a crucial component of the following study, which also has the goal of expanding the unders...

One major contribution of the Metropolitan Lima Urban Development Plan 2035 (PLAM2035) to the history of planning is its innovative strategy to integrate the city’s open spaces and archaeological heritage within a network of green corridors for the enjoyment of the community. Most of Lima’s architectural heritage is located in the periphery of the metropolis, linked to river valleys and mountains, sites that have been converted into landfills or wastelands threatened by informal urbanisation. However, these places foster the potential to become ecological and cultural assets that help in connecting the metropolitan ecosystems with Andean heritage, to promote the protection of archaeological sites, tourism, national and international research activities, and community integration. This study seeks to analyse the PLAM2035’s proposal regarding the integration between the System of Ope...

The purpose of this research is to analyse the landscape and archaeoastronomical heritage of Ñaña, Lurigancho-Chosica, which subsists in the interstices of the contemporary urban periphery of Metropolitan Lima. Despite the state’s neglect and unregulated urban growth in its surroundings, it holds many unexploited attributes. The Union-Ñaña archaeological zone was inhabited since pre-Hispanic times by specialists in the observation of astronomical phenomena called yañac, who were linked to the cult of the snow peak Pariacaca. The latter was the most important apu from the Central Andes of Peru, according to the mythical 'Manuscript of Huarochirí' from the 16th century. Thus, the study of the relationship between landscape and astronomical alignments (a key aspect of the Andean worldview) is a crucial component of the following study, which also has the goal of expanding the unders...