Landscape of bricolage: spatial configurations and spatial practices at in-between territories in the Andes

Abstract

This paper inquire into the nature of Cuenca’s in-between landscapes –those ‘partly urban-partly rural” spaces next to the city–. The study has a double aim to be developed simultaneously. On one side it is the question of qualifying a territory whose duality as urban and rural, accounts for its indistinctness and the consequent little attention it has received by both urban and rural studies. On the other side is the question of “how” to approach such territory to truly grasp and unfold the meaning of its inherent contradictions, and the logics of its development. Spatial mapping and bricolage –as a conceptual tool–I are used to engage the intricate interactions between the landscape, its actors and their ways of producing this landscape.