The Anarchic Growth of the Central Region of Mexico. Current and Future Consequences

Abstract

This is an essay on the consequences of the indiscriminate growth of the central region of Mexico. It is a mixed research, in which the qualitative and quantitative approaches interact with the objectives, on the one hand, to facilitate the understanding of the serious multifaceted situation of the inhabitants and the ecological imbalance of this region, and on the other to propose a drastic paradigm shift in the policy of human settlements and the fight against corruption that is ultimately the root cause of the problem at hand. The procedural part includes statistical data on population, extension, and population density of seven entities in the region: Mexico City, and the States of Mexico, Tlaxcala, Puebla, Quer�taro, Hidalgo and Morelos. The propositional part is based on the methodology called "creative imagination" of Giambattista Vico, an Italian philosopher who lived five centuries ago, but whose thought is still valid today. The results of the research were based on the systems approach and the theory of constraints supported respectively by Fritjof Capra and Eliyahu Goldratt.