Metropolitan area in the Mexico Valley: Megacity without planning

Authors

  • Emilio Pradilla Cobos Deparment of Theory and Analysis, Autonomic Metropolitan University, Xochimilco section. National researcher, level 2, National System of Researchers of Mexico , Departamento de Teoría y Análisis, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Xochimilco. Investigador Nacional, nivel 2, Sistema Nacional de Investigadores de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24197/ciudades.09.2005.83-104

Keywords:

metropolis, city region, tertiary, fragmentary management, Mexico Valley, federal district, State of Mexico

Abstract

The metropolitan zone in the Mexico Valley settles the territory of three federal organizations: Federal District, State of Mexico, and Hidalgo, which causes difficulties to make a joint Planning.
In order to understand how this territory is, an historical frame of the zone is related. The problems that its economy has suffered by the disindustrialization are explained. It has caused to a tertiary specialization of the city in two sectors: formal, and informal.The informal sector absorbs the unemployment of informal, but that generates poverty, delinquency and zonal differentiation of the city.

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Portada Ciudades 09, 2005/2006 (La Guaira)

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Published

2018-02-01

Issue

No. 09 (2005): The Latin American city: Beyond the grid

Section

Monographic section

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How to Cite

Metropolitan area in the Mexico Valley: Megacity without planning. (2018). Ciudades, 09, 83-104. https://doi.org/10.24197/ciudades.09.2005.83-104