Economic development, transport investment, and urbanization in Mexico: causality and effects

Vicente German-Soto Alexsandra De la Peña Flores Karina García (2023, [Artículo, Artículo])

The transport investment is often used as a tool for economic development and urbanization. However, there is still debate about whether transport improvements promote development and urbanization or, conversely, these latter create the conditions that stimulate the transport. In theory, the transport system contributes to development and urbanization because it speeds up the exchange of goods and services, but the effects can also be reversed, so the direction of causality is not so easily identified. This work uses Mexican state information of the 1988-2018 period, grouped as panel, to know both magnitude and direction of the impacts. Methodology consists in cointegration tests and VECM regressions. The results reveal that long-term causality goes from economic development to transport and its subsectors, which means that economic development is a necessary condition to modernize transport in Mexico. For urbanization, the causality and magnitude of the effects vary depending on the transport subsector. The total economy and passenger sector’s investments cause urbanization, but transportation and subsectors of cargo carriers and communications estimate two-way causality. The conclusions suggest that urbanization depends on improvements in transportation and the latter, in turn, on economic development.

Desarrollo regional Transporte Economía urbana Causalidad Modelo VECM CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES Economic development, Granger-Causality, VECM Models, Productivity, Urban Economics

Geospatial analysis of the distribution of empty spaces located in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas

Claudio Curzio HECTOR DE LA TORRE GUTIERREZ (2021, [Artículo, Artículo])

Reflect about urban empty spaces means looking around all these lots that are distributed in different geographical points of the cities and are characterized because they are still waiting to be built, therefore, they are vacant, and also these spaces are empty in the sense of not provide any function. In this sense, the objective of this article is to present a methodological proposal specially designed to study this type of urban elements from the particular point of view of urban geography and spatial analysis. Specifically, through a series of surveys, both digital and physical, the various urban voids located in the city of Nuevo Laredo were recorded, thereby creating a database that included a total of 3,836 case studies. In this way, using different types of statistical techniques and spatial models, it was possible to obtain and interpret the results, managing to identify exactly what were the main patterns and characteristics of said geographic distribution.

empty spaces urban vacant lots geo-spatial analysis urban geography border in Nuevo Laredo Vacíos urbanos lotes baldíos análisis geo-espacial geografía urbana frontera en Nuevo Laredo Geografía urbana economía urbana morfología urbana CIENCIAS FÍSICO MATEMÁTICAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA CIENCIAS FÍSICO MATEMÁTICAS Y CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA

Sistemas innovadores, jardinería y horticultura vertical en el IMTA

Jorge Flores Velazquez (2018, [Documento de trabajo])

El proyecto tuvo como propósito generar infraestructura para la promoción, difusión y transferencia de tecnologías verdes en zonas urbanas, partiendo de la instalación de un muro verde en el Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua.

Agricultura urbana Jardines verticales Muros verdes Tecnología apropiada INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA

Habitability conditions for floods: the case of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas, Mexico

MARCELINO GARCIA BENITEZ Saul Nucamendi Hernandez Omar Ávila Flores (2022, [Artículo, Artículo])

At present, there are changes in the environment that favor the presence of extreme climatic phenomena such as floods, this exposure implies that the populations of urban areas suffer effects on their material assets, which limits their capacity for individual and / or family development. Given the lack of local territorial planning, the establishment of colonies was allowed on the banks of the Sabinal river and its tributaries that present episodes of flooding during the rainy season (Sistema Municipal de Protección Civil, 2015).

 

The study evaluates the habitability conditions of the urban population exposed to flooding, the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas is taken as a reference, since historically it is a recurring problem during the summer. The methodology interrelates geostatistical, spatial and cartographic databases with hemerographic information sources based on the review of the literature for the construction of the general index, determined in dimensions that group social, economic, educational aspects, availability of basic services, goods with those that count the dwellings and their accessibility, etc., on a geographical scale of Urban Geostatistical Areas (AGEB).

 

The results obtained generated an index on the distribution of habitability conditions by urban Ageb, they are interrelated with spatial data on floods and their relationship with Sustainable Development Goal 11 (ODS), which proposes to improve infrastructure conditions in cities and towns. sustainable communities so that the inequality originated among the population exposed to future extreme flood events that occur in the different areas that make up the city is reduced.

Habitability conditions floods Sustainable Development Goals urban Ageb city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas AGEB urbana ciudad de Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Chiapas condiciones de habitabilidad inundaciones CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Casos de estudio en México en el sector de la construcción

Aurora Poó Rubio (2010, [Artículo])

El planeamiento del estudio de casos múltiples para estudiar las empresas en el sector de la construcción permitió a la presente investigación el examen del comportamiento de varias empresas. Aunque estas no eran completamente similares, su comparación pudo ser llevada a cabo, identificando prácticas exitosas, así como aquellas que derivaron en grandes problemas para las organizaciones. Referente a la evaluación, las empresas no necesariamente cumplieron completamente con todas las premisas planteadas en sus hipótesis de trabajo. Se observó que las organizaciones estudiadas tuvieron un comportamiento diferenciado. SIDEK, tuvo aciertos espectaculares, pero igual de impactante fueron sus contratiempos. Se desempeñó hasta el 94 como una gran empresa, pero en la segunda mitad de los 90's produjo resultados contrastantes. ARA respondió satisfactoriamente a todas las evaluaciones aplicadas y su desempeño ha continuado siendo exitoso, basado en políticas de trabajo y financieras visionarias pero conservadoras al mismo tiempo, lo que pone en manifiesto las experiencias vividas en los años de crisis económica del país. ICA fue sumamente exitosa durante un importante período de tiempo y sufrió fuertes afectaciones por los cambios contextuales, anotados en el estudio correspondiente; identifica tanto áreas disfuncionales como momentos en el tiempo de fragilidad empresarial; actualmente con la generación de obra pública y el Programa Nacional de Infraestructura, su desempeño ha vuelto a ser exitoso y se mantiene como la constructora número 1 del país. En nuestro país son pocos los Casos de Estudio de empresas mexicanas y no se localizó ninguna información respecto a firmas del sector de la construcción. Lo anterior muestra que hay un gran camino que recorrer en cuanto al estudio de las firmas por estos medios y que el diagnóstico que se puede elaborar de su desempeño es fundamental para el diseño de la Planeación Estratégica de las empresas del sector de la construcción en México.

Construction industry--Mexico. Construction industry--Management. Industria de la construcción -- Administración. HD9715.M4 CIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS ECONÓMICAS ECONOMÍA SECTORIAL CONSTRUCCIÓN

Tecnología de agricultura urbana para la producción de alimentos

ANGEL TINOCO CARRILLO CARLOS ARMANDO DE LOS SANTOS GARCIA (2012, [Documento de trabajo])

Un modelo físico de agricultura urbana e hidroponía para producción de hortalizas – Una guía para producción de cultivos hortícolas bajo técnicas de agricultura urbana – Un video sobre producción con agricultura urbana --- Bibliografía.

Informes de proyectos Agricultura urbana Hidroponía Cultivos alimenticios INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA

Parques vemos, biodiversidad no sabemos: el caso de la herpetofauna de la ciudad de Mérida

Roberto Carlos Barrientos Medina (2023, [Artículo])

La herpetofauna, constituida por las diferentes especies de anfibios y reptiles que se pueden encontrar en un hábitat, es un buen grupo indicador de diversidad, ya que presenta características de movilidad que los hacen ser más dependientes del hábitat (lugar en el que viven). En este trabajo se analizan los patrones de diversidad de los anfibios y reptiles que se pueden encontrar en los parques ecológicos de Mérida, en distintos niveles de expresión (alfa, beta y gamma). Los resultados señalan la influencia del grado de urbanización, de acuerdo con los patrones encontrados en las diversidades beta y gamma.

AMBIENTES ANTROPIZADOS ECOLOGIA URBANA NIVELES DE DIVERSIDAD PATRONES ECOLOGICOS YUCATAN BIOLOGÍA Y QUÍMICA CIENCIAS DE LA VIDA BIOLOGÍA ANIMAL (ZOOLOGÍA) HERPETOLOGÍA HERPETOLOGÍA

DEPRESSIVE SYMPTOMS (DS) AND CITIES: A SOCIOECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE FOR THE MEXICAN CASE

Jorge López Martínez Déborah Féber González (2023, [Artículo, Artículo])

This article presents an analysis of the proportion of the population that lives in the 20 top cities of Mexico. Population that suffers from moderate to severe Depressive Symptoms (DS) in relation to urban and socioeconomic factors typical of urban territories and comparing them with people living in rural or non-urban environments that suffers DS. To check this, we generated the Complex Index of Socioeconomic and Urban Conditions (CISUC), based on the Mind the GAPS framework, a model that relates the susceptibility or prevention of mental illness in cities based on urban factors, we also used socioeconomic indicators that exist in Mexican cities. For the construction of the ICCSU database, we used data from the National Health and Nutrition Survey in the years 2006, 2012 and 2018-19 and the data of the Mexican Institute for Competitiveness, A.C. and National Institute of Statistics and Geography in the same years. The results obtained from CISUC were reinforced with the use of a panel data model. The findings that we obtained reveal that there is a more important correlation between cities and people who suffer from moderate to severe DS than in rural areas, a condition that intensifies with the socioeconomic conditions of the population, for example, their socioeconomic stratum, their gender, and present urban marginalization. This allows to generate future discussions about other types of diseases such as anxiety, depression, stress, loneliness, and schizophrenia for large population groups. The panel model yields a lower goodness of adjustment, due to the lack of more time points, however, it points out that improvements in socioeconomic and urban conditions slightly reduce depressive symptoms.

mental health depressive symptoms (DS) urban marginalization socioeconomic factors cities salud mental sintomatología depresiva (SD) ciudades marginación urbana factores socioeconómicos CIENCIAS SOCIALESCIENCIAS SOCIALES CIENCIAS SOCIALES

Estudio experimental con modelos físicos para generación de criterios de peligro por inundación y para caracterización de efectos del arrastre de sólidos sobre estructuras de cruce en ríos de zonas urbanas

JUAN ANTONIO LOPEZ OROZCO MANUEL MARTINEZ MORALES Cecia Millán-Barrera (2015, [Documento de trabajo])

El objetivo de este estudio es generar nomogramas de vulnerabilidad por inundaciones, aplicado a peatones, para la construcción de mapas de peligro integrales que consideren tirante máximo, velocidad máxima, estabilidad al vuelco y estabilidad al deslizamiento. De igual manera, se evalúan los efectos del flujo en el peatón en un módulo de una calle a escala real (1:1) variando los parámetros.

Ríos Control de inundaciones Simulación Zonas urbanas INGENIERÍA Y TECNOLOGÍA

Diluted density. Urban planning in the Monterrey Metropolitan Area

Sheila Ferniza Quiroz Jesús Manuel Fitch Osuna (2021, [Artículo, Artículo])

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.

density urban sprawl urban planning densidad expansión urbana planeación urbana HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA HUMANIDADES Y CIENCIAS DE LA CONDUCTA