Producir paisajes seguros en contexto de gentrificación: disimular el peligro y mantener la apariencia

Within the framework of a study on what I call triad “urban renewal, gentrification and securitization”, analyze production cosmopolitan, ascetic apparently safe aesthetic that governments planners have tried to establish in Mexico City’s central Alameda its surroundings. first look at urbanistic strategies –following theory defensible spaces Oscar Newman (1972)– challenge socalled architecture fear trigger techniques danger dissimulation. Secondly, daily works exclusion intensive use bodies who work everyday precarious conditions render such an possible. Thus, putting tension inclusion-exclusion binomial has dominated debate gentrification, analysis also destabilizes other dichotomies frequently intervene this debate: formality informality; modernity archaism.