La expansión urbana del municipio de Tlajomulco de Zuñiga

Abstract

*** ENG: Early in the second half of last century, the cities of central Mexico began to undergo a constant process of growth and integration of their surrounding communities, a process that has been defined as metropolización. Guadalajara, the second largest city in the country is obviously part of that phenomenon. This is more acute, especially after the crisis of the eighties, which allowed a spatial structure characterized by the uneven regional, metropolitan concentration, uncontrolled urban growth, unequal distribution of infrastructure, among other phenomena associated. This situation is exacerbated further by the effects due to the process of globalization, which has changed the way, not only of how they conceive, but also how to structure the city. Studying a phenomenon as complex appearance can be very difficult, and so in this document is considered to analyze the developments that have submitted land use from the previous boom in the Metropolitan Zone of Guadalajara and the recent period, particularly in the town ofTlajomulco de Zúñiga to, so inductively generate a model explaining the situation and thus better understand the urban sprawl of the metropolitan areas of Mexico. It seeks to achieve through the desk research prior theoretical models by other researchers in the field, and the use of Geographic Information Systems, created the National Institute of Geography and Informatics (INEGI), and other institutions national government. After integration and theoretical analysis of aggregate data available there is a general theoretical model that initial city has unveiled a comprehensive, consisting of three key dimensions, namely social, economic and political, provided by the international environment, primarily economic. Also, the city should be interpreted, based on a historical reference, made and modified by technology, to explain urban sprawl as a multidimensional phenomenon and constantly changing, so do not talk about development patterns, but stages of development.