Gabriela Estrada Díaz

Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México · Department of Architecture, Urbanism and Civil Engineering

This paper examines the relationship between the price of dwellings and their accessibility to their surroundings. Based on a hedonic price model, we analyze the value that people assign to having access to elements of their environment such as social infrastructure and transport networks. The results indicate that people prefer living in connected...

La thèse part d'une interrogation sur la mesure dans laquelle l'État mexicain s'est doté des moyens de réponse vis à vis les défis en matière de prévention des risques majeurs. Si le pays est plutôt bien préparé pour affronter l'urgence et qu'on arrive à reconstruire les infrastructures endommagées lors des événements catastrophiques grâce aux moye...

Resumen La Zona Metropolitana del Valle de México (ZMVM) ha experimentado una expansión no proporcional al crecimiento poblacional. Entre otras modalidades de poblamiento, la construcción de grandes conjuntos habitacionales periféricos propicia esa expansión, imponiendo costos individuales y sociales. Se revisan aquí las características de la expan...

Mexico’s Disasters Policy program is reviewed under the premise that is currently insufficient to effectively prevent the occurrence of disasters. Mexican disasters’ policy relies on a series of instruments that should intervene on different phases of a disaster (from risk stage to post-disaster), but so far it has focused on emergency response ins...

Cities are not the only place where risks exists. The urbanization modifies the original conditions of a site, some times increasing the dangers or even creating new ones during its appropriation of territory. In search for integrating the problematics of risks and disasters to the urban planning, societies have developed laws, procedures and regul...