Interaction between Public Transportation and Urbanization in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area: an Expansive Model Reaching its Limits

In Metropolitan Area of Mexico City, most of urban displacements happen through semi formal public transportation: small and medium capacity vehicles operated by small private enterprises, through a concession scheme. This kind of public transportation has been playing a major role in the Mexican capital. On one hand, it has been one of the conditions for urbanization to be possible. On the other hand, despite its uncountable deficiencies, public transportation has allowed for a long time the whole population to be able to move within this huge metropolis. However, that important function with regards to integration has now reached its limits in the most recent suburbs of the city, where a new mode of urbanization is taking place, based on massive production of very big social housing gated settlements. Public transportation tends to constitute here a factor of exclusion and households meet with important difficulties for their daily mobility. 

Forst, Rainer. Toleration in conflict: past and present. New York: Cambridge University Press; 2013, 635 p.

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Latino Urbanism, the Politics of Planning, Policy and Redevelopment. Editado por David R. Diaz y Rodolfo D. Torres. Nueva York, New York University Press, 2012

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Entropic system of daily mobility in a Metropolitan Area of Bogota, Colombia.

The fundamental diseconomy in the large metropolitan areas is the significant and sustained increase in travel time incurred by its inhabitants daily. Since a portion of the energy consumed in the daily mobility does not necessarily translate into individual and collective wealth, entropic systems have a feature which, as discussed for the case of Bogotá, does not have metropolitan institutions with the ability to redirect.

Kristeva, Julia and Sylvere Lotringer (Ed.), (2002), “Revolt She Said” An Interview By Philippe Petit, New York, Semiotext(e), 138p.

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Fortalezas y debilidades de la política de asistencia a connacionales en el exterior: un estudio de caso de los colombianos en New York

La transnacionalización de los migrantes que a pesar de que éste fenómeno no es nuevo ha venido tomando gran importancia en la arena internacional debido a el proceso de globalización de los grandes flujos migratorios desde la década de los 90