De la urbanización a la preservación patrimonial. El espacio público de San Ángel

Abstract

Currently the new urban society has created a radical change in the city, its old conception has changed, generating new forms and social practices, where the city now can not be understood as the traditional city, that has entered a process of significant change where as "urban" is the most important, however, the city retains ancestral characteristics that conception. That is, remains a physical territory where "live" citizens, which have added new urban processes result of the sequence of qualitative changes in its development, which complicate the city. In this sense, the crisis has been enacted or death of the city and its spaces. Referring mainly to safety, "privatization" has spread through works closed in the city also has created new ways in the city as the "mall", which has resulted in social exclusion and segregation, by these reasons it has become possible that urban space and specifically the city's public space has changed. However, the problem in terms of "death" is too narrow a vision. It is true that there have been significant aspect of privatization of the public in the city, responding to new ways of organizing society, however, the public space with traditional features still coexists in certain parts of the city. And it is public space and heritage in the city, which primarily retains and preserves the social, economic, cultural and political space and is the main "doer" of town. Therefore, this thesis examines the public space and heritage as the most important maker of city space in front of the new urban forms, in order to analyze what were the causes or factors that have made possible the preservation of urban heritage and architectural ―San Ángel‖ despite the urbanization that occurred (mid-nineteenth century) and hits the city, to explain the importance and the role played by the public space for its preservation