Mexico City: Growth at the Limit?

The Mexico City newspaper includes expert essays on the core themes of the first six Urban Age conferences, asking questions about public space, transport, housing and labour in the city. It also features key local articles on governance in the mega city, the informal economy, the particularities of small pocket public spaces, and transport congestion. The data section includes the evolution of the Metropolitan Area, and comparisons with London, New York and Shanghai.

Table of Contents

MEXICO CITY: LABOUR MARKET AND WORK PLACES

Iliana Ortega-Alcazar 

MEXICO CITY: OVERVIEW | DE REGRESO DEL LÍMITE

Deyan Sudjic 

MEXICO CITY: THE COMPLEXITIES OF CHANGE | DINÁMICA MACROECONÓMICA Y LABORAL DE LA CIUDAD DE MÉXICO

Gustavo Garza Villarreal 

MEXICO CITY: CONGESTION AT THE LIMITS? | ¿CONGESTIÓN AL LIMITE?

Bernardo Navarro Benítez 

MEXICO CITY: MORE HOUSING OR A BETTER CITY? | MÁS VIVIENDA O MEJOR CIUDAD

Noemí Stolarski Rosenthal 

MEXICO CITY: THE BREATHING SPACES OF THE CITY | ESPACIOS PARA QUE LA CUIDAD RESPIRE

Alfonso Xavier Iracheta Cenecorta, Mario Schjetnan 

MEXICO CITY: GOVERNING THE MEGA CITY | GOBERNAR LA MEGAMETRÓPOLI

Alfonso Xavier Iracheta Cenecorta 

MEXICO CITY: THE INFORMAL ECONOMY AS A WAY OF LIFE | LA INFORMALIDAD COMO FORMA DE VIDA

José Manuel Castillo Olea 

MEXICO CITY: SUMMARY

Iliana Ortega-Alcazar 

MEXICO CITY: MOBILITY AND TRANSPORT

Iliana Ortega-Alcazar 

MEXICO CITY: PUBLIC LIFE AND URBAN SPACE

Iliana Ortega-Alcazar 

MEXICO CITY: HOUSING AND NEIGHBOURHOODS

Iliana Ortega-Alcazar 

 

Publication date
February 2006