| Journal: | Investigaciones geográficas - Instituto de Geografía. UNAM |
| Database: | PERIÓDICA |
| System number: | 000402346 |
| ISSN: | 0188-4611 |
| Authors: | Mendoza Vargas, Héctor1 |
| Institutions: | 1Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Geografía, Ciudad de México. México |
| Year: | 2016 |
| Season: | Abr |
| Number: | 89 |
| Pages: | 90-106 |
| Country: | México |
| Language: | Español |
| Document type: | Artículo |
| Approach: | Analítico, descriptivo |
| Spanish abstract | Este artículo analiza las guías urbanas como una producción cultural que "impone a los viajeros" una percepción espacial de la Ciudad de México(Diego, 2014:60). El análisis centra la atención en los cambios de los espacios urbanos de las guías bajo una amplia temporalidad de estudio, desde finales del siglo XVIII, al XIX y hasta 1940. Se presenta, primero, el tránsito del mundo colonial religioso a finales del siglo XVIII a la nueva vida comercial de la capital mexicana en las guías de 1842 y 1854. Sigue el cambio de la función administrativa y comercial, en la guía de 1882, a los primeros itinerarios urbanos en la edición de 1891. Interesa situar el contraste entre el panegírico material de la ciudad y las miserias urbanas de la guía de 1901, en el contexto de relativa paz y tranquilidad del Porfiriato. Se propone, al final, una integración interpretativa para situar el cambio de la percepción espacial en una escala temporal, entre los itinerarios urbanos de la guía de 1891 y los circuitos regionales de la guía de 1940 del Valle de México |
| English abstract | This article analyzes the urban guides of Mexico City from a wide time-lapse perspective, from the end of the eighteenth century to the nineteenth century and up to 1940, in order to detect major themes and the change of urban perception. In foreigner's guide outlines, from 1792 to 1793, the Cathedral's central position conferred strength to the maps inserted in such editions. It is worth noting the subliminal role of this document regarding urban perception, social behavior and the maintenance of religious devotion in the capital of New Spain. After Mexico's independence these guides lacked novelty. During the years between 1842 and 1854, this editorial genre was reactivated in the Mexican capital. In those years the guides were included in an attempt to fulfill the increasing need for information about the city regarding political, judicial, ecclesiastical and military aspects including, as the main novelty, the continuously expansive commercial sector. While guide editions were modified in order to satisfy the consumption and preferences of the nascent urban bourgeoisie, both editors and authors detected novel concerns among readers, not only about commercial life but they also looked for pleasant and ludic experiences in the city. In the guides from the period 1882 to 1891 there is a substantial change of spatial perception of Mexico City. Without losing attention to commercial life, which was becoming progressively more complex and diversified, for the first time the guide's pages proposed the discovery of the city under a different perspective. In regard to this, the figure of Antonio García Cubas was essential for the generation and internalization of new habits in order to travel across the city in an ordered fashion through a series of fixed routes. On the pages of the guide published by this geographer in 1891, he suggested several itineraries including the map and the respective |
| Disciplines: | Geografía |
| Keyword: | Geografía humana, Geografía urbana, Guías urbanas, Percepción espacial, Escala temporal, Mapas urbanos, Ciudad de México, México |
| Keyword: | Geography, Human geography, Urban geography, Urban guides, Spatial perception, Timescale, Urban maps, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Full text: | Texto completo (Ver PDF) |
