Urban growth and transformation of the livelihoods of poor campesino households: the difficulties of making a living in the periphery of Mexico City

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yadira Méndez-Lemus
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Growth

Architecture in Mexico City, 1940–1980

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn E. O’Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Education And Health ◽  
The Face ◽  
New Construction ◽  
University City ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Family House

Architecture in Mexico City in the mid-20th century was shaped by rapid economic and urban growth, demographic change, new construction technologies, and politics. Architects adapted modernist idioms and those that evoked historical precedents for new purposes. Key figures who had begun practice earlier in the century, including Mario Pani, Juan O’Gorman, José Villagrán García, and Luis Barragán, designed major new works and strongly influenced the profession, even as a new generation led by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Ricardo Legorreta, and Teodoro González de Léon came of age. As they had been since the 1920s, public patrons were the most important clients of modern buildings, which often addressed needs for better housing, education, and health care. The period also saw the rise of modern suburbs and the evolution of the single-family house, as well as the creation of major buildings for increasingly important cultural institutions, especially museums. As they had in preceding decades, architects used the non-architectural arts, particularly painting, to distinguish their works. The legacy of the Mexican muralist movement was most evident on the facades of major buildings in the new University City, where the influence of international modernist planning principles was also striking. In 1968 Mexico City hosted the Olympics, for which architects, planners, and designers created a network of buildings and images that functioned interdependently to present Mexico as cosmopolitan and historically rooted in its indigenous history. Sprawl and pollution worsened in the 1970s, as the capital came to be dominated by buildings that were not designed by architects. While some observers questioned the relevance of architecture in the face of seemingly unstoppable and uncontrollable growth, talented young architects responded with buildings notable for their monumentality, mass, and sophisticated engagement with historical types.

scholarly journals Mapping Vertical Urban Growth in Mexico City in a Seismic Risk Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-103
Author(s):  
Milton Montejano-Castillo ◽  
Mildred Moreno-Villanueva ◽  
Erick Espinosa-Jiménez
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Seismic Risk

Urban growth and groundwater sustainability: Evaluating spatially distributed recharge alternatives in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 586 ◽  
pp. 124909 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina R.L. Mautner ◽  
Laura Foglia ◽  
Graciela S. Herrera ◽  
Rosa Galán ◽  
Jonathan D. Herman
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Groundwater Sustainability ◽  
Spatially Distributed ◽  
Distributed Recharge

scholarly journals Real Estate Industry as an Urban Growth Machine: A Review of the Political Economy and Political Ecology of Urban Space Production in Mexico City

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gian Delgado Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Distribution Analysis ◽  
Real Estate Industry ◽  
Growth Machine

Cities concentrate the means of production, wealth, political power, infrastructure, educational institutions, and a relevant share of our cultural heritage. As such, they are seen as places of opportunities. Contemporary urbanization, however, being central to the accumulation of capital, has also escalated environmental problems that are usually suffered by the urban poor due to an uneven production of urban space. Mexico City is not an exception. It has mainly expanded through a lively auto-construction process and, more recently, under the incentive of a speculative urban development. The first trend reinforces the informal housing sector, in certain cases, involving significant environmental implications such as the degradation of land of ecological value. The second trend responds to capital accumulation dynamics, promoting urban renewal in central areas or where a greater potential rent-gap exists, underpinning the uneven production of urban space, and usually withholding most of its related socioenvironmental impacts. This paper focusses on this second process. It assesses the so-called “urban growth machine” in action, its socioecological impacts, and related contestation processes. With that in mind and after a general introduction and a brief description of urban development in Mexico, the real estate industry in Mexico City is evaluated in terms of the potential ecological implications of the building stock expansion from 2012 to 2018. A spatial distribution analysis of contestation processes, correlated to such urban expansion, is presented as well. The case study confirms what has been learned in other locations of the Global South, where a contradictory and uneven process of urban development has also been experienced under the stimulus of capital speculation. The paper, however, offers a novel approach by bringing together urban political economy, industrial ecology and urban political ecology analytical tools. Such hybridization, it is argued, enables a more comprehensive understanding of contemporary urbanization and its socioenvironmental impacts, which in turn is central to any effort for urban transformation.

scholarly journals Reestructuración urbano regional y nuevos derroteros de la migración en la Región Centro de México. El caso de la ZMCM / Regional Urban Restructuring and New Aspects of Migration in the Central Region of Mexico. The Case of the MCMZ

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 331 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Pérez Campuzano
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Urban Growth ◽  
Central Region ◽  
Wage Differential ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Urban Restructuring ◽  
Restructuring Process ◽  
Regional Factors ◽  
Metropolitan Zone

La migración está íntimamente relacionada con factores regionales. No solamente la diferencia salarial entre regiones, sino toda una serie de fenómenos como la oferta de empleo, la oferta de vivienda, la búsqueda de mejores condiciones de vida, el crecimiento urbano, etc., atraen a la población. Con esta perspectiva, este trabajo propone analizar el balance migratorio de la Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México (ZMCM) dentro del proceso de reestructuración por el que pasa la Región Centro del país. AbstractMigration is intimately related to regional factors. It is not only the wage differential between regions but a whole series of phenomena such as the supply of employment and housing, the search for better living conditions, urban growth, etc. that attract this population. From this perspective, this article seeks to analyze the migratory balance of the Metropolitan Zone of Mexico City (MZMC) within the restructuring process of the Central Region of the country.

Migrant Diplomacies: Rethinking Diplomacy Beyond State-Centric Perspectives. A Civic Bi-Nationality Experience from North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Alejo
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Migrant Activism ◽  
Point Of Departure

There is a pressing need to extend our thinking about diplomacy beyond state-centric perspectives, as in the name of sovereignty and national interests, people on move are confronting virtual, symbolic and/or material walls and frames of policies inhibiting their free movement. My point of departure is to explore migrant activism and global politics through the transformation of diplomacy in a globalised world. Developing an interdisciplinary dialogue between new diplomacy and sociology, I evidence the emergence of global sociopolitical formations created through civic bi-nationality organisations. Focusing on the agent in interaction with structures, I present a theoretical framework and strategy for analysing the practices of migrant diplomacies as an expression of contemporary politics. A case study from North America regarding returned families in Mexico City provides evidence of how these alternative diplomacies are operating.

Curb Cuts: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente

Somatechnics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-215
Author(s):  
Robert McRuer
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Good Will ◽  
British Embassy ◽  
The Uk

Theorists of neoliberalism have placed dispossession and displacement at the centre of their analyses of the workings of contemporary global capitalism. Disability, however, has not figured centrally into these analyses. This essay attends to what might be comprehended as the crip echoes generated by dispossession, displacement, and a global austerity politics. Centring on British-Mexican relations during a moment of austerity in the UK and gentrification in Mexico City, the essay identifies both the voices of disability that are recognized by and made useful for neoliberalism as well as those shut down or displaced by this dominant economic and cultural system. The spatial politics of austerity in the UK have generated a range of punishing, anti-disabled policies such as the so-called ‘Bedroom Tax.’ The essay critiques such policies (and spatial politics) by particularly focusing on two events from 2013: a British embassy good will event exporting British access to Mexico City and an installation of photographs by Livia Radwanski. Radwanski's photos of the redevelopment of a Mexico City neighbourhood (and the displacement of poor people living in the neighbourhood) are examined in order to attend to the ways in which disability might productively haunt an age of austerity, dispossession, and displacement.

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