CHAPTER 03 | MISMATCHED LEON
Polygons.
Jardines del Moral
San Francisco
FIG 22. Research polygons in Leon (author’s own, 2021).
To analyse in depth the PS in the city of Leon it is not ideal to study the city as a whole. What is required is to divide the city into smaller sections. Focusing in one of these sections one by one, enables to have a clearer understanding of the PS found in them. These sections are what Latour (2005) called oligopticons, because they permit to view the city from there and identify the connections and networks happening there that exist elsewhere in the city. These oligopticons have been designated as polygons in the present dissertation. Polygons have been delimitated by grouping adjacent neighbourhoods with similar socioeconomic level. By using the ideal type methodology two areas of the city with contrasting socioeconomic level where delimitated to form these two polygons. The more evident the differences between them, the easier it will be to understand how income is related with their PS. The two polygons have been named: Jardines del Moral and San Francisco; taking their names from neighbourhoods found in them, which were the first ones to be settled in those areas. The first one is a consolidated area in the city, which means it is a formal area; and the second one is a non-consolidated one because it was originated as an informal settlement. Fig. 22. presents both polygons to be analysed. •Consolidated (formal): ■Jardines ■ del Moral DIY PUBLIC SPACES: Self- production of Public Space in Leon, Mexico.
•Non- consolidated (informal): ■San ■ Francisco
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