Summary
The city and what is understood as your reality, is a complex construction and infinite that is woven between its intangible nature, such as memory, the emotions, the ideas, the senses; and their definitions are tangible, such as physical forms, buildings, events citizens. This reciprocal relationship that links the imagined with the empirical territories, is the fundamental basis of the production of urban space, a process which posits the city as a work in development where their forms and discourses are constantly transformed as the essence and actions of its inhabitants. This position is in contrast with the imaginary city called “Southern suburbs” in San José, Costa Rica. A compilation of symbols mostly negative used to designate a dominant way to the territory South of the Central part. This image is not flexible, not mutated, not updated, because it is the fruit of your own experience and sense of territory, which is a crisis in the production of urban space. This research arises from the need to understand phenomena and characteristics that contribute to a critical relationship between the tangible and intangible assets of the territory, exploring the possibilities of Architecture and Urbanism, as fields involved in the dynamic socio-spatial city, on the approach of interpretations and alternatives to the problem. The work was carried out in three stages: The first is a theoretical approach/ framework for understanding the link between what is imaginary and what is empirical of the city, synthesized in a diagram of interpretation is called the Structure of Production of Urban Space. In a second stage is performed a Portrait or a territorial analysis of the Neighbourhoods of the South and Barrio Cuba, according to the dominant discourse in order to identify their implications in the organization, design, investment, planning and urban experience. As a final step, we propose pathways and tools update productive of the territory from the concept of Imagination, a process that not only attends to the perception and processing of all that is created, but that is creation in power, and therefore, makes it possible to exercise critical and alternative response schemes dominant representation that affect the dynamics with which the city produces and what is understood as their reality.
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