2020年12月3日 · In Mexico City one sector the population has tall, modern buildings, luxurious neighborhoods, sanitation infrastructure, and other resources built in the last two decades, the other sector is a completely different reality, with impoverished areas that lack the proper hygienic infrastructure and low-income housing.

2023年4月25日 · The widespread growth of slums and informal settlements in Mexico City is a problem that deserves continued attention from policy-makers in both local and national government. In particular, the negative effects that such living conditions have on residents’ health and safety should be prioritised.

In Mexico City, that wealth is juxtaposed with enormous, sprawling lower income housing areas. Sometimes referred to as “slums”, areas like Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl feel more like gigantic worker’s colonies. As far as the eye can see, 2 and 3-story poured concrete houses stretch into the distance in a flat plain next to the airport.

Neza, a sprawling hamlet representative of informal urbanism, is located in the vast metropolitan area of Mexico City. Its inception dates back to the years following World War II when Mexico City had a massive influx of migrants that exacerbated the city’s housing crisis.

2017年4月4日 · Photographer Johnny Miller’s aerial photographs of Mexico City include brand new middle-class homes built right next to a rundown “barrio.” Approximately eight million people around the world live in slums, and in Mexico, most of those people are concentrated on the outskirts of the Mexican capital.

Damage in Mexico City was severe as the earthquake waves bounced around the Basin for almost four minutes. Buildings in the core area between 6 and 15 storeys were severely damaged. Smaller and larger buildings than this remained relatively unscathed.

2020年11月13日 · Mexico City is home to one of the largest slums in the world (Nezo-Chalco-Itza) which has 4 million inhabitants making up 18% of Mexico City’s population alone (also located to the south). The surrounding yellow areas vary in utilization.

In order to clarify this historical relationship, the analysis focuses on the evolution of the Mexican system of cities according to their size, and it is divided into three subperiods: (i) the 1960-1980 decades, characterized by a swift economic growth; (ii) the 1980-1990 lost decade of a deep economic crisis; (iii) the partial economic recover...

indigenous-looking citizens, who inhabit the poor slums I described in the introduction. It is no coincidence that slums like these are hidden away from modernity. Architecture is a sign of power. And we live in a globalizing world, one that not only favors an open market and

2020年12月7日 · This combination of mass movement and economic inequality results in the creation of slum cities, where people of low economic means live together in hastily built shanty-towns with poor sanitation conditions. Two cities where slum life is …