DIFFERENTIATED LAND USES EN PERI-URBAN ENVIROMENTS: SOURCE OF AN ANNOUNCED FRAGMENTATION

Abstract

This paper examines the consequences of a metropolitan expansion based on the affectation of a peri-urban settlement according to an urban growth model of socio-territorial differentiations, because the existing of these regions was not contemplated. Likewise, it analyzed the urbanization modes where contrasting land uses were allowed, resulting in marginalized, fragmented and segregated spaces. The article is structured in two parts: the first part consists of a theoretical inquiry, presenting different visions of what metropolitan expansion produces, working from the contextual-urban approach of the peri-urban regions and settlements and how they result in sociocultural spaces isolated from the metropolis. The second part is an empirical work which
examines the consequences of a fragmented type of urban expansion in the rural urban town of San Juan de Ocotán, Zapopan, with respect to the urbanization process in that peripheral zone. In the understanding that this research is part of a doctoral work, nevertheless, it is required that it entails
a wider scope of application, equally, of conceptualization due to the multiple complexities of the phenomenon that converge in the peripheral zones.