Urban culture from living in the coastal zone of the Department of Córdoba-Colombia

Abstract

Coastal areas are natural areas with a high economic and tourist potential due to their outlet to the sea. However, the municipalities of the Department of Cordoba located in these ecosystems have a low financial and administrative performance measurement due to the difficulties they present in mobilizing their resources and managing land management. In this sense, we analyze the city-citizen relationship established in the processes of urban construction in two coastal municipalities of the department from the dwelling as a diagnosis of the urban needs of these places. It was approached from a mixed approach with sequential explanatory design and applied the survey of urban imaginaries with questions of subjective nature on the feeling-thinking of the population in their territory. The results allow us to affirm that the aesthetic niches in both municipalities are suitable for their inhabitants between what they like (beach-tourist potential) and what they dislike (lack infrastructure and public services) the place where their socio-cultural, economic, and political practices are rooted. Given that the processes of territorialization in this region have been slow, urban management is required to improve the quality of life of the inhabitants in their environment.

Keywords:
Coastal zone; Territory; Urban culture; Inhabit; Urban niche