[ Alejandro Carrillo R. ]
On 27 April this year, the District's Legislative Assembly Federal approved changes to the Urban Development Act which seeks to unite efforts to make life viable in the city on housing, services, business and urban development. These reforms and updates have taken different views, both pro and con. While
is frowned upon by many this news, for some scholars and leaders of organizations, these reforms leave it up to the city government to decide the design, development and approval of plans and urban development programs, which does not favor democratization of the city, as it only allows for public participation at the level of consultation.
these reforms also established and exclusive direct entry of private investment, domestic and foreign, for housing construction, leaving only the Housing Institute of the Federal District as an intermediary between the property with the city government.
come into operation through the Strategic Management Areas set to be the office or the Secretary of Government capital to different areas of work for the development of mega projects that includes the administration of the Federal District in the next 20 years and will to legalize the so-called 'mega projects' for the city privately funded.
Among the most notable of these developments is the financial corridor of reform, changes to land use in industrial zones to build giant real estate housing developments, construction of the superhighway west with a 33-year concession to private enterprise to charge tolls for use. Also
Super Arena in Mexico City with an area of \u200b\u200b83 thousand square meters in the wake of Azcapotzalco FerrerÃa in this development including the disappearance of North Alameda and Deportivo Reynosa.
addition to these projects is the construction of the super mall and luxury residential towers with more than 25 levels in the delegation Tlalpan in an area that has ecological reserve of 700 thousand square meters located behind TV Azteca Ajusco area and the expansion of mega Santa Fe to La Marquesa.
hope these reforms, forthcoming in the Official Gazette producing new innovative and quality infrastructure to consolidate the City of Mexico as the most important nationally.
Source: Supplement of the newspaper El Financiero, dated July 7, 2010. Original title: Megaprojects; new urban face.
Image: Aerial view of Paseo de la Reforma, appears in Skycrapercity.
On 27 April this year, the District's Legislative Assembly Federal approved changes to the Urban Development Act which seeks to unite efforts to make life viable in the city on housing, services, business and urban development. These reforms and updates have taken different views, both pro and con. While is frowned upon by many this news, for some scholars and leaders of organizations, these reforms leave it up to the city government to decide the design, development and approval of plans and urban development programs, which does not favor democratization of the city, as it only allows for public participation at the level of consultation.
these reforms also established and exclusive direct entry of private investment, domestic and foreign, for housing construction, leaving only the Housing Institute of the Federal District as an intermediary between the property with the city government.
come into operation through the Strategic Management Areas set to be the office or the Secretary of Government capital to different areas of work for the development of mega projects that includes the administration of the Federal District in the next 20 years and will to legalize the so-called 'mega projects' for the city privately funded.
Among the most notable of these developments is the financial corridor of reform, changes to land use in industrial zones to build giant real estate housing developments, construction of the superhighway west with a 33-year concession to private enterprise to charge tolls for use. Also
Super Arena in Mexico City with an area of \u200b\u200b83 thousand square meters in the wake of Azcapotzalco FerrerÃa in this development including the disappearance of North Alameda and Deportivo Reynosa.
addition to these projects is the construction of the super mall and luxury residential towers with more than 25 levels in the delegation Tlalpan in an area that has ecological reserve of 700 thousand square meters located behind TV Azteca Ajusco area and the expansion of mega Santa Fe to La Marquesa.
hope these reforms, forthcoming in the Official Gazette producing new innovative and quality infrastructure to consolidate the City of Mexico as the most important nationally.
Source: Supplement of the newspaper El Financiero, dated July 7, 2010. Original title: Megaprojects; new urban face.
Image: Aerial view of Paseo de la Reforma, appears in Skycrapercity.
