Evaluación de indicadores socio-urbanos y estrategias de reforma para el centro de Monterrey

Abstract

With the advent of industrialization, the city of Monterrey began an accelerated process of demographic and urban growth. Its proximity with the United States plus the work that the industries offered, made that thousands of mexicans came to Monterrey searching better luck. Thanks to the slogan “the modern city” on the decade of the sixties, the center began to experience a phenomenon of migration of population to the perihpery. With the years, this phenomenon made that the collective imagination of the society associate the center of Monterrey as a place to transfer from one site to another. Currently, it’s more than obvious that Monterrey’s center is deteriorated. This is why, the government has arisen various urban reform strategies to improve the quality of its environment. As everything, these strategies have some weakness that prevent them to be completely sucessfull. This research is divided in two phases. The first one analyzes the centre through a socio-urban indicators system in order to obtain the real lectura of this site. While the second stage is to classify and analyze the strategies of reform and determine if there is a correlation between these strategies and the analysis