Illegal land dealing and the metropolitan expansion of Mexico city

Abstract

The rampant demand for building space in Mexico City consequent upon both the concentration of socio-economic activity and people is here shown to have led to an inevitable scarcity of this basic factor and a consequent and inevitable upsurge of speculative activity on the market for it. This state of affairs is shown to have been further worsened by the financial inadequacies of the public bodies involved in the question as it has by their total lack of so much as a single programme for encompasing the situation. The consequences of the foregoing have been a thrusting out of the population to the city outskirts and these areas, in turn, have likewise undergone a recent growth. In order that this process might be in some wise regulated, programmes have been put under way to regulate land ownership in areas that have suffered the effects of squatting. Be this as it way, the inability of such measures to cope with the problem in full has marred the hoped-for effects of a planning scheme envisaged as being up to offering both Justice and Efficiency.