Agriculture to Urbanization in Chicoloapan: The Importance of the Ejido in Housing Development

This project explores the role that methods of land control, land division, and property right agreements play in shaping housing and urban development in Mexico City’s peripheral municipalities. We argue that a typology of housing development has emerged through competing territorial agendas between formal (government sponsored) and informal (sponsored by social organizations) urban expansion. The project maps those housing types in order to understand informal development’s role within Mexico’s attempt to house vast quantities of population as its citizens continue their transition from agrarian land occupation to urban inhapitation. This analysis renders explicit the formal organizations that result from various histories, relationships, and alliances between key actors in housing and urban development processes.

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-14-2