Une ville qui bouge, une ville qui change

Abstract

The current evolution of the Mexican metropolis requires an approach examining the population redistribution into the urban area, further than a growth rate study. Residential movements are shaping deep socio-spatial changes. The urban transition process is enlightened by population census data. Considered into the metropolitan area limits (ZMVM), 19.2 million people are living in Mexico City. During the period 1995-2000, the city was still growing, thanks to the natural growth (plus 1.8 million people). There was a negative net migration : the city was more pushing people than pulling and 800 000 people left the metropolitan area. In the same time, inner mobility was very important and the census registered 1.4 million residential changes during this period (8 per cent of the total population). This paper focuses on the development of more and more expanded and complex migrants’ trajectories into the area. This hypothesis lets enlighten the urban development as populating dynamics of migrations into the city.

Keywords

• Mexico-City
• metropolisation
• urban inner migration
• migrant trajectory
• population redistribution pattern