From Colonias Populares to Urban Villages: Urban Governance and Economic Policies That Shaped Marginal Settlements in Mexico City and Beijing, 1950 – 2000
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Mexico and China share similarities in historic developmental trajectories. After a peasant revolution calling for land reform sparked in both countries in the first half of the twentieth century (Mexico in the 1910s and China in 1949), large-scale rural-urban migration took place in the second half of the century, particularly in Mexico City and Beijing, the biggest city in each country. As a result, marginal settlements expanded rapidly in the cities in the forms of high-density rental housing and self-built settlements, where public services were scarce. Drawing on urban development plans, housing policies, government documents, economic statistics, and case studies from secondary sources, the paper examines how the interaction of economic policies and urban governance shaped the development of marginal settlements in Mexico City and Beijing, exploring similarities and differences between these two cases. Whereas Beijing started with strict control of the urban housing system to match the planned economy, Mexico City took a laissez-faire approach toward the marginal settlements before the 1970s in exchange for electoral support. When both countries embraced neoliberal economic reform, however, their paths converged as these two cities wanted to integrate the marginal settlements into the formal land market. Beijing combined periodic clean-up campaigns with the redevelopment of these communities, and Mexico implemented a dramatic regularization policy in 1992.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | June 3, 2022 |
| Publication date | November 16, 2022 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Gao, Yangran |
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Subjects
| Subject | Marginal settlements |
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| Subject | Mexico > Mexico City |
| Subject | China > Beijing |
| Subject | Urbanization |
| Subject | Land use, Urban > Government policy |
| Subject | City planning |
| Subject | Slums > Government policy |
| Genre | Text |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Gao, Y. (2022). From Colonias Populares to Urban Villages: Urban Governance and Economic Policies That Shaped Marginal Settlements in Mexico City and Beijing, 1950 – 2000. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/ph294mx9676
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