URBAN IMAGE IN LARGE CITIES

In Monterrey, a modern city, shaped by economic and technological interests, the environment is ordered and controlled in an effort to maintain a formal passage far removed from any natural or social dynamics. The urban obsession with formalist aesthetic doctrines has replaced natally regenerated places with horticultural deserts. The modern city does not have much time to think about the past because it urges to build an immediate and narrow future, a product of the capitalist tendency to maximize profits in the short term. Our city is growing rapidly, although a large part of the city we live in is still the city of yesterday, these yesterdays were remembering each other, pushing and disfiguring their predecessors to such a degree that today's city is made of fragments of yesterdays of the immediate past, because a large part of the previous pasts were so disfigured that they no longer tell us anything when we look at their history. There is a relationship of interdependence between man and his environment, therefore, any transformation that takes place in this, will involve a reaction of the organism to adapt.

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JUAN MANUEL MARTÍNEZ ZÚÑIGA. Forschungsprofessor an der Fakultät für Architektur der Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.NANCY ELIZABETH PRUNEDA AVILA. Forschungsprofessorin an der Fakultät für Architektur der Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.ROSA IRIS MORENO MONTEMAYOR. Doktorin und Forscherin an der Fakultät für Architektur der Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.