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Shaping Mexico City: Evolutionary Housing for Low‐Income Urban Families
Author(s) -
Martin Andrea,
Andrade Jorge
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2221
Subject(s) - ingenuity , metropolitan area , mexico city , settlement (finance) , colonialism , flexibility (engineering) , geography , sociology , archaeology , ethnology , business , economics , management , neoclassical economics , finance , payment
The need for affordable housing in major cities is a familiar challenge worldwide. Mexico City's poorer residents have demonstrated true ingenuity and flexibility in meeting it – as Andrea Martin and Jorge Andrade , cofounders of the housing research collaborative Taller de Vivienda at the Metropolitan University of Mexico, explain. They outline how the form of subdivided urban colonial mansions known as vecindades has influenced that of the randomly planned self‐built neighbourhoods termed colonias populares , and examine both: from initial settlement, through expansion and densification, to saturation.