Título

Urban Form and Productivity in Mexico 1995-2015

Autor

Jorge Alberto Montejano Escamilla

CAMILO ALBERTO CAUDILLO COS

Paavo Monkkonen

Erick Guerra

Nivel de Acceso

Acceso Abierto

Licencia

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0

Identificador alterno

doi: 10.14207/ejsd.2020.v9n1p300

Referencia de publicación

doi: 10.14207/ejsd

Materias

Urban Form - (AUTOR) urban structure - (AUTOR) productivity - (AUTOR) manufacturing - (AUTOR) CIENCIAS SOCIALES - (CTI) GEOGRAFÍA - (CTI) GEOGRAFÍA ECONÓMICA - (CTI) DESARROLLO REGIONAL - (CTI) DESARROLLO REGIONAL - (CTI)

Resumen o descripción

Worldwide, urban policies are encouraging more compact development in cities arguing environmental sustainability and higher economic productivity. However, there is limited evidence for the relationship between urban form and economic productivity outside high-income countries. While we know that workers in larger cities are more productive, existing empirical evidence on the relationship between compactness and productivity is only from high-income countries, with a productive service sector. Given that the economic base of many cities in Mexico consists of land-intensive manufacturing activities, policies promoting urban compactness have potential negative impacts on economic growth by restraining expansion. In this paper we explore the relationship in time between urban form/spatial structure and economic productivity in Mexico, by testing the hypothesis that growing in a compact way is positively associated with labor productivity. That hypothesis is not completely rejected because several measures of urban form are positively correlated with higher levels of productivity, and other measures are negatively correlated. As the principal findings are counterintuitive, they raise questions about what is the accepted knowledge of urban growth.

Editor

European Journal of Sustainable Development

Fecha de publicación

febrero de 2020

Tipo de publicación

Artículo

Versión de la publicación

Versión publicada

Recurso de información

http://centrogeo.repositorioinstitucional.mx/jspui/handle/1012/293

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application/pdf

Fuente

European Journal of Sustainable Development

Idioma

Español

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Sugerencia de citación

TY - JOUR AU - Montejano, Jorge AU - Alberto, Caudillo AU - Monkkonen, Paavo AU - Guerra, Erick AU - Núñez, Juan Manuel AU - Garza, Blanca AU - Ávila, Gerardo AU - Medina-Fernández, Sandra PY - 2020/02/01 SP - 300 T1 - Urban Form and Productivity in México 1995-2015 VL - 9 DO - 10.14207/ejsd.2020.v9n1p300 JO - European Journal of Sustainable Development ER -

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