Polycentrism and hierarchy of localities of “Altos Sur” region of Jalisco, 2010

Authors

  • Mónica Mariscal González Doctorate in Geography and Territorial Planning, Division of Historical and Human Studies Department of Geography and Territorial Organization, University Center of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Guadalajara
  • Rodolfo Montaño Salazar Ministry of Environment and Territorial Development

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5821/ace.13.38.5360

Keywords:

System of cities, functional structure, population density, population dispersion

Abstract

Objective

Analize the hierarchical system of the localities of the region Altos Sur in Jalisco Mexico, in result of the application of the Methodology for the concentration and dispersion of the Mexican population from the Polycentric Model.

Methodology

Comparison between the traditional classification of localities by size of locality of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), the institution in the country that offers periodical socio-demographic official information, against that derived from the Methodology for the concentration and dispersion of the Mexican population from the Polycentric Model to emphasize the qualitative advantage that this last one offers for investigations in urban-rural scopes when giving a relative weight to the localities from its characteristics and functional structure.

Conclusions

The hierarchical method determined potential centralities of the region, understanding that a main center/core or morphological unit is capable of providing employment and specialized services endogenously, both to its population and to those surrounding it. It is therefore a point that acts as a node in the territorial matrix, capable of attracting flows for the consumption of goods and the demand of the population.

Originality

The Methodology for the concentration and dispersion of the Mexican population based on the Polycentric Model in comparison with the traditional hierarchization of localities in Mexico was able to expose a system of cities that demarcated social, political and economic influences among localities in the Southern Highlands region of Jalisco, at the same time as it defined population centers that due to their spatially concentrated critical mass have the potential to represent a hierarchical structure to expose them, strengthen their economic activity or shore them up, in order to maintain their local economic development.

Author Biographies

Mónica Mariscal González, Doctorate in Geography and Territorial Planning, Division of Historical and Human Studies Department of Geography and Territorial Organization, University Center of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Guadalajara

Degree in Economics from the University of Guadalajara (2000). Teacher in Local Development and Territory. PhD Student in Geography and Territorial Planning in the same University. I am currently Director of Specific, Ecological and Territorial Programs and Projects in Semadet, formerly Coordinator in the General Planning Office of the Sub Secretariat of Planning, both of the Government of Jalisco. Recently I was Coordinator in Metropolitan Management at the Center for Strategic Studies for Development (CEED) of the University of Guadalajara. I was Director General and former Demographic Coordinator of the State Population Council until 2013. I have developed analyzes and population studies regarding demographic components and indicators and about the characteristics of the population as well as its geographical condition for Jalisco, its regions and municipalities. I have participated in several workshops and seminars on demographic order and development factors. I am co-author of eight books, six published by the Government of Jalisco and two by El Colegio de Hidalgo and CEED.

Rodolfo Montaño Salazar, Ministry of Environment and Territorial Development

Geographer of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the UNAM. Currently belongs to the National System of Researchers SNI Level 1 of CONACYT. He is a Master and Doctor in Urbanism of the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. He also has two post-doctorates, one in Local Development and Territory at the University of Guadalajara and the second in Sustainable Urban Development at El Colegio del Estado de Hidalgo. In the labor field he works as General Director of Planning and Territorial Planning and in charge of the General Directorate of Planning and Urban Management in the SEMADET. He served as Deputy Director of construction licenses and land use certifications and as private secretary of the Metropolitan Commission on Human Settlements (COMETAH) in the Government of Mexico City. He has participated as an exhibitor in seminars and congresses of national and international academies. He has been a professor at the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic Social Planning (ILPES) of ECLAC; at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, at the University of Guadalajara and at El Colegio del Estado de Hidalgo; director of master's and doctoral theses and evaluator of research and teaching projects for the realization of postdocs. He has participated in numerous publications in books and scientific academic research articles.

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Published

2018-10-31

Issue

Year 13, issue 38 (Oct. 2018)

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