Building a city within the big city: Mexico City’s challenger

Abstract

For years Distrito Federal in Mexico not covered by the model of city public space as a priority. The basis for creating public space is the ground and in Distrito Federal this is a serious problem. We face a privatized land which no treatment is given public good. There are great inequities in the distribution of public space in the city. Already City Government recognized the importance of the problem although it is essential to landing that concern specific projects, but more so to develop some tools to execute the necessary works. What public space? Which social groups affected? What urban function? There are key questions that are in the trunk of policy formulation. Doing nothing does not seem the best option given the scale of the problem, and therefore it becomes necessary to resize the problem from the very definition of a city model giving the issue a territorial perspective to discharge social function, the establishment providing a clear and current land policy processing and preservation, financial instruments, and a leadership capable of overcoming special interests.