https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8110-7923

Abstract

The intention of this article is to show an analysis of the urban landscape on the conditions of neglect, appropriation and prospection of the commercial zone integrated into the Civic Center of Mexicali, a border city in Mexico; following the theoretical tradition of critical geography and urban cultural studies. The city’s real estate project, urban morphology and architecture have moved from the pragmatic and rationalist logic of modern urbanism, to the uncertainty derived from failure and deterioration. Errors are evident in its planning, making visible the potential on walkways, vacant lots and heterogeneous buildings that coexist near the government center.

Keywords

• urban history
• interstices
• civic space
• appropriation
• urban voids
• modernist planning
• border city