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Diluted density. Urban planning in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area

Sheila Ferniza Quiroz Jesús Manuel Fitch Osuna (2021)

The Monterrey Metropolitan Area (mma) in Northern Mexico has had an expansive and dispersed growth in recent decades. In 35 years, the city doubled its population and grew 8 times in territory (Secretariat for Sustainable Development, 2020). As a mitigation measure and with the objective of repopulating the areas within the city, urban regulations have been promoted that allow higher density and building potentials in some municipalities; however, the efforts are isolated and without metropolitan coordination. What are the urban regulation guidelines in the municipalities of the mma? How dense are its municipalities? Where are located the densest areas of the city? The objective of this research is to establish the current state of local regulation regarding urban development and to map the housing density to identify the locations with the lowest and highest density at the mma. The gross density at the Ageb scale is mapped for the 18 municipalities of the mma through the QGis software; data from the Inegi 2020 National Population and Housing Census is used. It is found that the peripheral municipalities of recent incorporation to the mma, unlike those of greater urbanization, lack urban development plans, and that most of the municipalities do not have updated regulations based on the current laws. The areas with the highest density are located in the peripheral municipalities, associated with the construction of low-income mass housing, and those with the lowest density in interior municipalities in areas of higher socioeconomic status, diluting the small efforts of densification in the city.

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¿Desvinculación o decrecimiento? Un marco analítico para abordar la transición socioecológica desde los estudios urbanos

Jerónimo Aurelio Díaz Marielle (2023)

Artículo número 1 de la Sección Articulos de Investigación.

La transición socioecológica se perfila como un nuevo paradigma científico centrado en las interacciones sociedad-naturaleza y es, al mismo tiempo, la punta de lanza de una nueva agenda urbana y ambiental que no está exenta de contradicciones y dilemas. Con un pie en la divulgación de los conceptos y las metodologías que conforman este paradigma, y con otro en el análisis sociológico de los nuevos ecologismos, el artículo ofrece una revisión de dos corrientes de ecología política que buscan orientar el sentido de la transición: la desvinculación ecológica y el decrecimiento. La primera coloca sus expectativas en el desarrollo tecnológico y el mercado, es favorable al modelo de la ciudad compacta y promueve las llamadas soluciones basadas en la naturaleza. La segunda reconoce el valor de los saberes urbanos vernáculos, pero apela a la descentralización de las urbes y pugna por una reducción equitativa y democrática de los estándares de vida de la población. El artículo concluye que los estudios urbanos (en particular la sociología urbana y la planeación territorial) pueden contribuir a comprender el funcionamiento de los metabolismos urbanos y aportar soluciones a las dificultades que impiden el tránsito hacia una sociedad sustentable, esto es, una sociedad que sea capaz de autolimitarse, ajustando su metabolismo a los ciclos y a los tiempos que requiere la naturaleza para regenerarse.

The socio-ecological transition is emerging as a new scientific paradigm focused on the interactions between society and nature, and at the same time, it is the spearhead of a new urban and environmental agenda. With one foot in the dissemination of the concepts and methodologies that make up this paradigm, and with the other in the sociological analysis of the new environmental movements, the article offers a review of two political ecology forces that seek to guide the direction of the transition: ecological decoupling and degrowth. The former places its expectations on technological development and the market, is favorable to the compact city model and promotes so-called nature-based solutions. The latter recognizes the value of vernacular urban knowledge, but calls for the decentralization of cities and advocates for an equitable and democratic reduction of the population standards of living. The article concludes that urban studies (particularly urban sociology and territorial planning) can contribute to understanding the functioning of urban metabolisms and providing ways to address social inertia regarding climate change.

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Cambio climático, metabolismo urbano, planeación territorial. Climate change, urban metabolism, territorial planning. HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA CIENCIAS DE LAS ARTES Y LAS LETRAS ARQUITECTURA URBANISMO