Urban-rural imaginaries at the Salado neighborhood in Ibagué, Colombia

Abstract

This article presents the study carried out in El Salado Special neighborhood of the city of Ibagué in Colombia, which identified how the forms of meaning of the inhabitants changes the territory. The territory is understood as a dynamic experiential fact and loaded with symbologies that come from the imaginary of the citizens. The research methodology was carried out from a qualitative approach based on a questionnaire-survey and semi-structured interviews, which were correlated from the identification of patterns and semantic fields. It was possible to find that what characterizes the territory in the neighborhood is that it has an urban-rural dynamic in which the changes generated by the urban growth of the neighborhood and the importance of the historical and heritage in the configuration of a tourist territory are problematized. with rural characteristics.

Keywords:
Territory; Urban imaginaries; Appropriation of space; City; Neighborhood