Urban Sprawl, Water Insecurity, and Enteric Diseases in Children from Mexico City

In recent decades, urban processes have experienced deep transformations. One of them has been the growing importance of urban sprawl. This article reviews its main features and the policies related to the paradigm of sustainability in three Latin American Megalopolises: Mexico City, Lima, and Santiago de Chile. For this purpose, we have carried out an extensive compilation of the existing academic literature. Urban sprawl in those cities cannot be understood without considering the rising housing needs of popular classes, usually addressed through the sequence settlement-parceling-building-urbanization. Simultaneously high-income groups tend to create separated and gated commodities and there is increasing spatial mobility of the middle classes. Those processes tend to generate highly segregated and increasingly patched metropolitan areas. Sustainability is framed on models of urban governance based on ecological modernization. In this context, three main sustainable policies are analyzed: water supply, green areas provision, and transport. Conclusions stress: (1) Deep changes experienced and the path-dependent element observed in the social construction of sustainability (2) Consolidation of a model of socially segregated and ecologically differentiated urban polycentrism (3) Relevance of the different megalopolises as niches of experimentation and innovation in the construction of specific forms of sustainable transition.

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Urban sprawl and ozone episodes in Mexico City

Urban Climate ◽

10.1016/j.uclim.2018.12.002 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 27 ◽

pp. 384-387 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Oscar Peralta ◽

Abraham Ortínez ◽

Harry Alvarez-Ospina ◽

María L. Espinosa ◽

Isabel Saavedra ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mexico City ◽

Urban Sprawl ◽

Ozone Episodes

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Dinámica y conservación de la flora del matorral xerófilo de la Reserva Ecológica del Pedregal de San Ángel (D. F., México)

Botanical Sciences ◽

10.17129/botsci.1686 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 51

Author(s):

Silvia Castillo-Argüero ◽

Gabriela Montes-Cartas ◽

Marco Antonio Romero-Romero ◽

Yuriana Martínez-Orea ◽

Patricia Guadarrama-Chávez ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Exotic Species ◽

Mexico City ◽

Plant Community ◽

Plant Communities ◽

Urban Sprawl ◽

Vegetation Type ◽

Lava Field ◽

Floristic Richness ◽

Pioneer Study ◽

Ecological Reserve

The xerophytic scrub located on the lava field produced by the Xitle volcano has been almost completely destroyed by the urban sprawl of Mexico City. The Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological reserve (1.77 km2) offers protection to one of the most important remnant portions. Despite such protection status, this plant community is presently still affected by invasion of exotic species, pollution, illegal extraction of selected species, and recurrent fires. The aim of this study was to update the floristic knowledge of the reserve and to analyze possible changes in the floristic richness and composition that have taken place in the last 50 years. Out of the total 337 species that are included in the present checklist (193 genera, 74 families), 152 species had already been reported by Rzedowski (1954) in a pioneer study that covered the entire lava field (80 km2). Contrastingly, 166 species recorded by him for this xerophytic scrub were not encountered in this study, although 21 of them do occur in another ecological reserve (Lomas del Seminario) located on the same lava field but at a higher elevation. The analysis of the distribution of species of the present checklist by vegetation type showed that only 34 of them occur exclusively in xerophytic scrub, whereas the remaining also occur in other plant communities. The information provided in this study is expected to serve as the basis for future monitoring studies aimed at assessing the dynamics of this flora through time.

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Review of Challenges of Cultural and Racial Diversity to Counseling: Mexico City Conference Proceedings.

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/034054 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 39 (3) ◽

pp. 333-334

Author(s):

No authorship indicated

Keyword(s):

Conference Proceedings ◽

Mexico City ◽

Racial Diversity

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Perceived Effectiveness Toward CAM and Formal Mental Health Services: A Study in Mexico City

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e664972012-001 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

Oswaldo A. Moreno ◽

Shoshana Berenzon ◽

Nayheli Saavedra

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Health Services ◽

Health Services ◽

Mexico City ◽

Perceived Effectiveness

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Urban sprawl in Europe

ARCHIVIO DI STUDI URBANI E REGIONALI ◽

10.3280/asur2013-108001 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 5-9 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Laura Fregolent ◽

Michelangelo Savino ◽

Stefania Tonin

Keyword(s):

Urban Sprawl

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Migrant Diplomacies: Rethinking Diplomacy Beyond State-Centric Perspectives. A Civic Bi-Nationality Experience from North America

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v17i1.755 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 37-46 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Antonio Alejo

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

Mexico City ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Global Politics ◽

National Interests ◽

Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽

Contemporary Politics ◽

Migrant Activism ◽

Point Of Departure

There is a pressing need to extend our thinking about diplomacy beyond state-centric perspectives, as in the name of sovereignty and national interests, people on move are confronting virtual, symbolic and/or material walls and frames of policies inhibiting their free movement. My point of departure is to explore migrant activism and global politics through the transformation of diplomacy in a globalised world. Developing an interdisciplinary dialogue between new diplomacy and sociology, I evidence the emergence of global sociopolitical formations created through civic bi-nationality organisations. Focusing on the agent in interaction with structures, I present a theoretical framework and strategy for analysing the practices of migrant diplomacies as an expression of contemporary politics. A case study from North America regarding returned families in Mexico City provides evidence of how these alternative diplomacies are operating.

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Curb Cuts: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2016.0191 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 198-215

Author(s):

Robert McRuer

Keyword(s):

Mexico City ◽

Global Capitalism ◽

Poor People ◽

Spatial Politics ◽

Cultural System ◽

Good Will ◽

British Embassy ◽

The Uk

Theorists of neoliberalism have placed dispossession and displacement at the centre of their analyses of the workings of contemporary global capitalism. Disability, however, has not figured centrally into these analyses. This essay attends to what might be comprehended as the crip echoes generated by dispossession, displacement, and a global austerity politics. Centring on British-Mexican relations during a moment of austerity in the UK and gentrification in Mexico City, the essay identifies both the voices of disability that are recognized by and made useful for neoliberalism as well as those shut down or displaced by this dominant economic and cultural system. The spatial politics of austerity in the UK have generated a range of punishing, anti-disabled policies such as the so-called ‘Bedroom Tax.’ The essay critiques such policies (and spatial politics) by particularly focusing on two events from 2013: a British embassy good will event exporting British access to Mexico City and an installation of photographs by Livia Radwanski. Radwanski's photos of the redevelopment of a Mexico City neighbourhood (and the displacement of poor people living in the neighbourhood) are examined in order to attend to the ways in which disability might productively haunt an age of austerity, dispossession, and displacement.

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