From rings to segregation. Mexico City, 1950- 1987
Mexico City is many cities at once: the central city as a concentration paradigm; the West of the wealthy, the popular East and the ecological reserves of the South. However, punctual intraurban analysis often lack a global reference for the whole city and, on the other hand, global studies can not...
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| Format: | Article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication date: | 1990 |
| Country: | México |
| Institution: | COLMEX |
| Repository: | Estudios Demográficos y Urbanos |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx:article/771 |
| Online Access: | https://estudiosdemograficosyurbanos.colmex.mx/index.php/edu/article/view/771 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Ciudad de México dinámica urbana estructura urbana |
| Summary: | Mexico City is many cities at once: the central city as a concentration paradigm; the West of the wealthy, the popular East and the ecological reserves of the South. However, punctual intraurban analysis often lack a global reference for the whole city and, on the other hand, global studies can not always extend their statements to different local conditions. Is it possible to concentrate different realities, observing the peculiarities, in a single outline? In this work two outlines are used: a concentric one that reflects the city's expansion and a segregated one that sees the "different cities" within. We analyze the commercial occupation of central areas and the growth due to the expansion of the periphery from 1950 to 1986. In both processes, the massive expulsion of the inhabitants appears, firstly as an effect and secondly as a cause. This fact serves as an argument to explore certain proposals in a prospective dimension. In the technical espacialist analysis we generally avoid the design of the city itself. Here we approach some design ideas without forgetting their social dimension. |
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