Summary: | In the Center of Mexico show a strong population growth, characterized by insufficient spatial ordering, supply of services and life quality, such as drinking water in quality and quantity, environmental quality, conservation of the territorial landscape quality, among others. In addition, the current dynamics reveal the limitations of territorial governance and thus allow the emergence of conflicts and risk of urban sustainability. The analysis of the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico illustrates some features and emerging conflicts in the process of urbanization, including inordinate population growth and spatial impacts on expansion territories. That contribute to reflect on conflicts generated by centralized processes of “urbanization without order" which hinders the functioning of the patrimonial inheritance and domestic agricultural as well as neighboring territorial systems.
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