Images that get away the evil: subjective interpretation of malefic and its effects over residential election

Abstract

This work deals with the urban imaginaries of maleficent and its influence in the residential election of fenced neighborhoods or with obvious architectonic elements of controlled access as a measure to moderate the fear of real or subjective insecurity that some inhabitants experiment nowadays. We study the proliferation of fenced neighborhoods in Monterrey as a response to the crime wave lived in the city in late 2000’s and early present decade, we study the most common subjective associations of experimented violence by the population of Monterrey with the architectonic and urban elements in neighborhoods and the ways it was interpreted by house developers and authorities thru urbanization of new fenced neighborhoods. Through document analysis and nethnography we make an interpretation of the sense of urban elements that constitutes the actual fenced neighborhoods and its effectivity to moderate the subjective insecurity of inhabitants.