Le modèle urbano-industriel et l’émergence de nouveaux conflits métropolitains. Le cas de la ville de Querétaro, au Mexique

Abstract

The urban-industrial growth of the city of Querétaro (Mexico) corresponds to the process of economic globalisation and the logic of financial capital. The article reports on the logic behind the construction of industrial parks and 'housing lots' or estates as closed and privatised spaces, both components of neo-liberal metropolisation. On the basis of the research work carried out in the La Pradera housing lots, the logic of real estate capital and the production of conflicts that challenge the processes of the precarisation of life as well as the excluding logics of the real estate market are visible. The demand for access to green spaces and public services on a continuous basis establishes the debate to concretise the public character and the desire to live differently from the impositions of the market.

Keywords

• urban-industrial model
• metropolisation
• privatisation of public services
• collective action