Researching The Contemporary City by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Editorial Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Published: 2014-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Colonias populares

Since the second half of the last century sizeable self-help housing areas have appeared by massive, illegal occupations of land through well-orchestrated group actions, building thousands of improvised shacks, by and large devoid of public services on the peripheries of most cities in Latin America (Bredenoord and Verkoren, 2010). In contrast, in the Mexican context popular urbanization has mostly taken place through the illegal subdivision of land. Land is acquired through buying and selling procedures, rather than de facto invasion, occupation and appropriation (Duhau and Schteingart, 1997, p. 30; Hardoy, 1989). Furthermore, land subdivisions have taken place on the communal agricultural land surrounding urban areas called ejido 14 —an state-owned land given to peasant communities. Such land is legally reserved for agricultural production but is frequently taken over by low-income groups for unauthorized housing developments. Indeed, land invasion or subdivision is often promoted by the same ejido authorities— comisarios —which see in the creation of urban developments an opportunity to reap greater economic benefit than they may obtain through land cultivation (Ezcurra, Mazari-Hiriart, Pisanty & Aguilar, 1999, p. 120). In the last decades, property regularization and urban upgrading programmes have taken place in informal settlements. In Mexico, a governmental agency (known as CORET, the Land Regularization Commission) was created in the seventies to deal with the regularization of illegal and spontaneous settlements established on ejido land around cities. In consequence, settlements which are already regularized have been integrated into the upgrading programmes implemented by public authorities.

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