Trajectories in the production of vertical housing in Mexico City (1948-2006)

Abstract

            The production of vertical housing corresponds to a housing typology, which since the end of the Second World War, was promoted with greater emphasis to solve the deficit problems faced by European cities. In Latin America, this was deployed mainly in cities of countries that reached high rates of industrialization, among which Mexico City stands out. In said entity, the production of vertical housing has gone through various periods, which assign unique characteristics to the building and determine variations in its location patterns. In this sense, the production of multi-family housing buildings in the developmentalist period is relevant, which decreases after the economic crisis of 1982 and reappears, at the beginning of the 21st century, as the predominant typology in central city halls. In this context, the hypothesis that guides this article is that there is a close relationship between the modifications that this housing typology has experienced, due to the ups and downs that the different development models have transferred to the production of housing in the City of Mexico. The methodology used consisted of an exhaustive review, between 2018 and 2020, of different bibliographic sources, which includes regulatory frameworks, press articles, censuses, among others, information obtained from websites and requests via transparency to various institutions. with an impact on housing production in Mexico City.