Improvement of the urban image in the city of Chihuahua

Abstract

The citizen public space is not a residuary place between streets and buildings. It is not an empty one considered "public" just for legal reasons, neither a "specialized" space, which one has to be visited like a museum or a concert (Borja, 2000). The history of the city is the one about its public space. For the case of Chihuahua, the urban image links the physical space-culture for the recreation of the people, providing a clean green zone proper to its history and identity. By necessities of the people and the uses of the ground that is given into legal matters to the public places, normally are used as parking lots, even the wastelands are turned into parking lots where only concrete spots are being produced that doesn't allow any oxygenation, neither an enjoyable environment to the people. As urban function, to innovate in this batches that have no use within the city and mark a discontinuity to the edification ending by being a limit in the urban image and visual pollution. As ecological function, is brought an oxygenation to the environment weaken some monuments with view nature, with order and vegetation to a city with identity considering the space into a pedestrian level, that is to say, to view the age of the people to determinate the most suitable space, the size of the batch and its adjacent places for the continuity of the facade providing the order and image to a city with enough space for parking lots, green zones, rest areas, playtime zones or the mixing of this places. The city is considered and it's design into a pedestrian level, as well as scale, ages, necessities of the people and it's environment, with the goal of find one open public space according to the necessities that show up, giving priority to places of view value altogether with the rules of the urban image and view of the Township of Chihuahua. ix Recreation, urban image, historic and cultural heritage are primordial topics of Chihuahua City for the topic of studying, are considered avenues that will through the city because they are ways that links from north to south of the population, as well as external transportation to the urban zone to quantify, measure and to size the space, batches or wasted wastelands with no use, giving a result of ninety two zones in different suburbs attached to Technologic Avenue, Carlos Pacheco Avenue, Fuentes Mares Boulevard and as well as the near avenues to the main ones.