Abstract

RAMOS DELGADO, Raymundo. Walks, Roadways, and Gardens in Porfirian Tepic. Enjoying Nature in the City. Secuencia [online]. 2023, n.117, e2102.  Epub Aug 18, 2023. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i117.2102.

As a result of the constant epidemics and wars plaguing, the country, nineteenth-century Mexican cities, incorporated a set of public gardens into their layout to improve the well-being of their inhabitants. This is how, on the grounds of hygiene and morality, the public space gradually began to be landscaped through romanticized green areas, incorporating an aesthetic of the natural in the human, to permit activities that encouraged recreation and contemplation in urban settings. This article uses local and regional historiography to show that the various public green spaces in the city of Tepic during the Porfiriato were originally designed for utilitarian purposes and subsequently, following its appropriation, for symbolic and referential ends.

Keywords : Mexican urban history; green public space; urban parks; landscaped squares; Porfirian Tepic.