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Given that many of the recently created cities have undergone a process of accelerated growth and maturation that, in some cases, has not allowed adequate documentation, which, in turn, has caused basic elements of their evolution to be lost; The work presented here has the objective of elaborating a theoretical research framework based on the bibliographic review of the urban-architectural development of the historical picture of one of these embryonic cities: Mexicali, Mexico, which is made up of three sectors that, in turn, they represent the very structure of the urban area; that is, to the center, mixed activities, to east, residential housing, and to west, popular settlements. This approach is intended to expose the fundamental aspects that characterized this founding center, understand both its changes and its deterioration and identify the potential for its historical and patrimonial valuation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes quantitative and qualitative elements and parameters to delimit the Ensenada-Mexicali economic corridor. In addition to discussing the effects of its dual condition as border and peninsula and defining its composition and structure, the article establishes the corridor's dimensions and areas of influence based on a proximity analysis, in order to obtain a delimitation that goes beyond political-administrative region, which entails problems for both analysis and representation. This problem is solved through a methodological alternative which facilitates an integrated analysis from a relational and organizational perspective. The geographical unit defined is useful to support the regional competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The desert territory and the culture of the inhabitants of the border zone that occupies Mexicali and its agricultural valley have been transformed and in this way they have generated several cultural characteristics that have contributed to the construction of a regional identity with anchorages in the arid geography. Indeed, the central objective of this article is to think the relation established between desert and culture, from a theoretical-conceptual perspective and to contribute, in this way, to the construction of a general frame that can be useful for other empiricist researches about the cultural identity in Mexicali and its agricultural valley. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this work, a brief of the methodology used in the study of cultural goods consumption among popular sector of Mexicali is presented. It includes three phases: a survey (quantitative method), a typology established from a multivariate analysis (data mining), and interviews with selected type-cases (qualitative method) all of which are analyzed from a multidimensional perspective whose categories retrieve marketing findings such as consumption visions (Phillips, Olson and Baumgartner, 1995) and conflict resolution strategies (Kwai-Choi and Collins, 2000) applied in the process of decision-making. It also draws from sociology (Thompson, 1990; Bourdieu, 1984) in order to identify reproductive aspects of consumption related to educative capital and social origin, and to deal with symbolic evaluation strategies of legitimate cultural goods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]