IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL LAND PROPERTY IN THE EXPANSION OF CITIES IN MEXICO

This paper analyzes the role of social ownership of land in the expansion of cities in Mexico, authorities and after the Article 27 constitutional reforms implemented in 1992. A review of the concept of city and urban sprawl, and the problem of the land market. Similarly examines the particularities of Latin American and Mexican cities that are characterized by traits of marginality and settlements in a large mass of citizens who lack the resources to acquire a piece of land to build a home. In addition to this, we analyze the complex process of socially owned land including the growth of cities and from the existence of different types of property in the urban process that fosters the involvement of various agents to strengthen the overall process.