Mexico City, 15 Years of Intensive Urban Development: Perceived Gentrification

Mexico City, 15 Years of Intensive Urban Development: Perceived Gentrification

Fifteen years of intensive urban development have given rise to exclusive and exclusionary urban landscapes in the central areas of Mexico City. Obsolete industrial districts, derelict urban land and relatively abandoned and well-connected middle and lower-class neighborhoods –which have been regard...

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Main Author: Delgadillo, Victor
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Published: Revista INVI 2016
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spelling oai:ojs.revistas.uchile.cl:article-627862016-11-25T17:30:00Z Mexico City, 15 Years of Intensive Urban Development: Perceived Gentrification Ciudad de México, quince años de desarrollo urbano intensivo: la gentrificación percibida Delgadillo, Victor Fifteen years of intensive urban development have given rise to exclusive and exclusionary urban landscapes in the central areas of Mexico City. Obsolete industrial districts, derelict urban land and relatively abandoned and well-connected middle and lower-class neighborhoods –which have been regarded by authorities as “run-down areas” – are some of the areas that have benefited the most from public and private investment. This paper explores the perception of local residents, caputured in an extensive survey conducted with more than 3,000 inhabitants in August 2014 from 10 central areas, about the transformation and gentrification of their neighbourhoods –which have been subject to real estate pressure. This research: a) describes the theoretical references and methodological strategies developed throughout the research, b) analyzes the intensive urban development and the increase in investment, presence of international real estate firms and public megaprojects; and c) studies the perception of dwellers about the transformation and gentrification of neighborhoods after a decade and a half of “sustainable” urban development, which has led to the reinforcement of historical socio-spatial inequality in central urban areas and the transformation of the urban and social landscape as the result of the emergence of exclusive central neighborhoods. Quince años de desarrollo urbano intensivo han producido un paisaje urbano cada vez más exclusivo y excluyente en selectas áreas centrales de la Ciudad de México. Las zonas céntricas que de manera privilegiada han sido revalorizadas por las inversiones públicas y privadas son áreas fabriles obsoletas, baldíos urbanos y barrios patrimonializados, de clase media y popular, relativamente despoblados, bien comunicados y declarados “decadentes” por las autoridades. Este artículo explora la percepción de la población residente en diez barrios centrales, objeto de distintos tipos de presiones inmobiliarias, sobre la transformación y gentrificación de sus barrios, a partir de una mega-encuesta aplicada a tres mil residentes en agosto de 2014. El artículo: a) presenta los referentes teóricos y la estrategia metodológica desarrollada en esta investigación; b) revisa las políticas de desarrollo urbano intensivo acompañadas del incremento de inversiones inmobiliarias trasnacionales y megaproyectos públicos; y, c) analiza la percepción de los residentes sobre la transformación y gentrificación de sus barrios de cara a década y media de desarrollo urbano “sustentable”, que han contribuido a reforzar las históricas desigualdades socio-espaciales en las áreas urbanas centrales, y en selectos barrios centrales han transformado sustancialmente el paisaje urbano y social. Revista INVI 2016-11-25 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf text/html https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62786 Revista INVI; Vol. 31 Núm. 88 (2016): Gentrificación y desplazamientos en América Latina; 101-129 0718-8358 0718-1299 spa https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62786/66654 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/article/view/62786/66664 https://revistainvi.uchile.cl/index.php/INVI/about/submissions#copyrightNotice
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description Fifteen years of intensive urban development have given rise to exclusive and exclusionary urban landscapes in the central areas of Mexico City. Obsolete industrial districts, derelict urban land and relatively abandoned and well-connected middle and lower-class neighborhoods –which have been regarded by authorities as “run-down areas” – are some of the areas that have benefited the most from public and private investment. This paper explores the perception of local residents, caputured in an extensive survey conducted with more than 3,000 inhabitants in August 2014 from 10 central areas, about the transformation and gentrification of their neighbourhoods –which have been subject to real estate pressure. This research: a) describes the theoretical references and methodological strategies developed throughout the research, b) analyzes the intensive urban development and the increase in investment, presence of international real estate firms and public megaprojects; and c) studies the perception of dwellers about the transformation and gentrification of neighborhoods after a decade and a half of “sustainable” urban development, which has led to the reinforcement of historical socio-spatial inequality in central urban areas and the transformation of the urban and social landscape as the result of the emergence of exclusive central neighborhoods.
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