The Guayaquil Aerovía is an aerial tramway buil by the Consorcio Aerosuspendido Guayaquil that started its operations at the end of 2020, connecting the cities of Guayaquil, Ecuador. Guayaquil is one of the most recent'landing'places of Global South urban mobility infrastructures design conceived as devices for the reduction of urban socio-spatial fragmentacion. By analyzing on a specific local government mobility policy focused on innovative uses of an established transport technology, these reflections seeks to contribute to important on-going empirical and theoretical dbates in Latin America about the capacity and efficacy of local governments to reduce poverty and spatial inequalities.

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