Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México: neoliberalismo y contradicciones urbanas

Abstract Following 32 years of implementation of neoliberal policies in Mexico, the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico, one of the four largest metropolitan areas in Latin America, has undergone significant demographic, economic, social and territorial changes. It has grown strongly in population and extension; its economy has de-industrialized and grown in outsourcing with predominance of informality, it has lost dynamism of growth and comprises the largest concentration of poor in the country. Its territory spreads towards periphery and is internally rearranged by the action of the re...