Lima symptoms: Heterotopias, gaps and risks in the peruvian capital

• Autor: Ojeda, Rafael
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2016
• Institución: Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.unife.edu.pe:article/389
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.unife.edu.pe/index.php/consensus/article/view/389
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Lima; urbanism; city; symtoms; urban crisis; heterotopias; urbanismo; ciudad; síntomas; crisis urbana; heterotopías

This article describes the symbolic, physical and demographic changes experienced by the Peruvian capital over the past fifty years. In this period, Lima came to its current image of a historical, hybrid, multicultural and post-modern city. A city that confines, within its boundaries, all the nuances of Peruanity that remain determined by a constant tension between its visible and invisible face, of being a city split between being simultaneously legal and illegal. Invoking a historical, urban and sociocultural approach of some of its representational luminaries (Valdelomar, Salazar Bondy, Matos Mar, De Soto), the article describes the current risks and possibilities that the project of hyper-modernization and consumption has come to mean for a jumbled and historical city, whose heterotypical undulations are faced with unilateral risks of a logic marked by “urban-marketization”.