Mobility and Collateral Effects on City Heritage in Aguascalientes, Mexico

Collazo, Alejandro Acosta

doi:10.2495/ug180061

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“…1). As the drawing made in 1855 by the geographer Isidoro Epstein was the most accurate historic plan of the city (also the oldest one), it was used to determine "a limited part of the city" of Aguascalientes now [5]. Also, in this plan we can observe two types of buildings: historic and artistic.…”

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Sustainability of Historical and Artistic Heritage Buildings

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2019

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The increasing size of Aguascalientes City in Mexico has augmented its traffic flows and also the amount of parking lots during the last two decades. The challenge of this paper is to analyse the social deterioration factors of historical heritage buildings and artistic heritage buildings. Hence, in order to evaluate such facts, a multivariate statistical method was applied; thus, a cluster exploration with specific variables-including a drawing indicating a "limited part of the city" with historic (and artistic) buildings, data of building sizes, parking lots, loss of architecture, areas of orchards, vacant lots, city parks, houses, industry, services and commercial shops. The results show similar sizes of commercial shops in several street blocks. Also, it demonstrates space adjustments and alterations in historic buildings; indeed, the commercial shops have modified historic buildings and in multiple cases they have torn them down. The conclusions mention that loss of historic architecture was more common in the oldest street blocks of the city; consequently, in the historic site there's a lack of architecture built during the 16th and 17th centuries. Therefore, the most significant change is the increasing commercial shops in the "limited part of the city", substituting residential land use. As a consequence, more parking lots were built to support the increasing mobility in the city. Since cultural sustainability is at risk in Aguascalientes City, the study of changes in architectural heritage sites becomes an important part of the urban research agenda of current city planners. For these reasons, the paper can contribute to the development of social and cultural balances. Moreover, the final task is to help improve the capacity of city planning and the sustainability of historical heritage buildings and artistic heritage buildings.

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Section: The Ending Of Viceroyalties and The 19th Centurymentioning

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Sustainability of Historical and Artistic Heritage Buildings

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2019

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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“…First ideas of this paper were published in the WIT Transactions on The Built Environment, by the WIT Press [1].…”

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Land Use Planning, Mobility and Historic Preservation in Aguascalientes City. Are Cultural Sustainability and Circular Economy Possible?

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2020

IJSDP

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The interpretation of the historic centre has changed lately and 'a limited part of the city' became a better definition in this paper to analyse the relationship among the cultural heritage, the increasing mobility, commercial shops, housing and factories, with land use in the core of the city. Mobility and commercial became a factor of transforming public and private places in the 'limited part of the city'. It includes 126 city blocks. Hence, two data tables and two figures were elaborated to accumulate the significant information obtained. Also, the data was highlighted to facilitate the analysis in such tables. The results and the discussion demonstrated that the main consequences of land planning and mobility are the decay of population and the loss of historic buildings; also, the preferences on remodelling historic sites in local city planning, as well as the importance of streetscapes with historic faç ades, but with no historic built structures inside the buildings. It is through the identification of parking lots, land use, historic drawings, a cadastral plan and historical population data that the loss of this type of architecture could be determined. Furthermore, the analysis showed the lack of clean mass transit systems in the city.

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Mobility and Collateral Effects on City Heritage in Aguascalientes, Mexico

Cited by 2 publications

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Sustainability of Historical and Artistic Heritage Buildings

Sustainability of Historical and Artistic Heritage Buildings

Land Use Planning, Mobility and Historic Preservation in Aguascalientes City. Are Cultural Sustainability and Circular Economy Possible?

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