RISK SCENARIOS IN THE URBAN LANDSCAPE: IMAGINARIES IN THE HISTORIC CENTRE OF CULIACÁN, SINALOA

Abstract

A growing body of literature explores the urban landscape as a component in continuous and unavoidable (re)configuration, for this reason this text aims to reveal the experience of the individual and the collective in the urban space through the imaginary as a first approach towards the analysis of the configuration and consolidation of risk scenarios. That having been said, we have selected the Historical Centre of Culiacán, Sinaloa as a case study to examine and identify the daily practices of the collective and the meanings of the spaces in the specific search for the characteristics that generate risk based on a qualitative methodology drew by 20 semi-structured interviews with residents and visitors and documentary photography as part of the methodological triangulation. The results provided a valuable wealth of information that allowed us to proceed to classify the risk by physical and spatial characteristics and to identify the spaces with a higher degree of sanction and representativeness. Consequently, we proceeded to classify the risk by spaces based on the mapping that illustrates the risk scenarios in this certainly two-sided area: dynamic during the day and desolate at night.