Selective modernization of Mexico City and its historic center. Gentrification without displacement

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ID11670272
AutoresVíctor Delgadillo (0000-0001-5928-6179, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume37
Fascículo8
Páginas1154-1174
Data de publicação2016-03-21
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoUrban Geography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02723638.2015.1096114
OpenAlexW2318039443
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas36
Referências citadas17

The logic behind recent processes of urban restructuring in Mexico City is market-oriented. This has increased land and housing prices and has made it more difficult for low-income populations to remain in revalued central areas. This article (1) reviews the growing academic debates about the emergence of gentrification processes in Mexico City and Latin America, where the forms, timing, and intensity of gentrification are different from those in cities of the Global North; (2) analyzes public policies that since the year 2000 have focused on an intensive, compact, and sustainable urban development, and have been oriented toward the selective modernization of the more profitable urban areas; and (3) analyzes the "rescue" of the historic center of the city and the construction of two megaprojects. The question of, and debates about, gentrification that apparently occurs without displacement is central to these three issues

Archaeology · Center (category theory · Central city · Development economics · Displacement (psychology · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Gentrification · Geography · Global city · Latin Americans · Modernization theory · Political science · Restructuring · Latin American Urban Studies · Urban and Rural Development Challenges · Urban Planning and Governance