Territorios Review 13, Colombia Enero de 2005, 31-52 pp.Ciudad y políticas urbanas
¿Es manejable la megalópolis de México?: cuando la modernidad se transforma en disputa clientelar (análisis de la ''crisis'' de Texcoco
Felipe de Alba
Abstract
This paper explores the conflicts or metropolitan crisis in the local governments and, likewise, the new importance acquired by them. The author aims to study the relations between the phenomenon of the declination of the Mexican political regime and the appearance of cities like an explosive phenomenon, particularly the case of the metropolis of Mexico, which, according to the main hypothesis, modified the relations among parties, organizations, and government. In fact, it is suggested that the metropolis of Mexico is a phenomenon defining the country’s new political territory. The analysis of these critical situations is important for any process of decision-making,which is the reason why the circumstances surrounding the decision to construct or not a new metropolitan airport in Texcoco, as well as its effects in the political environment, are analyzed. The author concludes that new metropolitan political actors will allow new variables of analysis to incorporate into the phenomenon of the national politic from the social-institutional relations of the metropolis.
Keywords: Political territory, decisional crisis, Mexico city
