The "Green Line" in an average Mexican town: between the rebuilding of the social tissue and the urban assembly

Abstract

At this point, in the PhD Program of Anthropic Areas Sciences of the Autonomous University of Aguascalientes (Mexico), we are conducting a research focused on urban infrastructural intervention as recreational and leisure activity that is taking place in the park "Green Line" of the city of Aguascalientes, which has come to affect some urban variables of the inhabitants of a large segment of the population in the east of the urban area, particularly in 32 contiguous popular subdivisions. The study aims to identify and explain the reasons, the significant differences and the effects and consequences that are occurring in the variable called: "quality of life" of the inhabitants of the area affected for the variables “living conditions, his relation to urban land and the movement of prices, taking as units of analysis to the population of these splits. The Green Line begins south of the city and extends northward for a distance of 12 kilometers, with a population of 130,000 people directly involved. The project is in the phase of data analysis, so here we present only a preliminary analysis prepared in order to trace the way in which discourse perceives what has been colloquially called "social acupuncture" program, derived from the written press on the Green Line, the "crown jewel" of what is officially called Citizen Security and Violence Program. In this paper, we show a content analysis of news from leading local newspapers, both from official sources or position of government agencies, such as the opinion or official policy of the newspapers themselves, the editors, columnists and reporters, about the benefits, advantages and disadvantages of implementing this linear park in the area, whose results will be contrasted at the end of the project with the perception of the people through the survey that arose to that effect.