Chapter28 - Urban housing in the metropolitan area of the Mexico City, in the context of climate change and the COVID 19 pandemic

Abstract

Today, mankind lives mainly in densely populated urban areas around the world. In Mexico, 80% of its population is urban and they develop their lives in a global context such as climate change and now the COVID-19 pandemic, among others. The United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat I) was established in 1976 in Vancouver, whose main objective was to discuss about the right to decent housing for populations around the world, however, this has not yet been achieved. With the study developed "sustainable and resilient architectural space in urban dwellings in Mexico" between July and September 2020, inhabitability problems were identified in the spaces of the urban dwellings studied, which correspond in a higher percentage to town hall and mayors of the Metropolitan Area the east of Mexico City. Based on the general characteristics of urban housing and the type of its inhabitants surveyed, the following problems were detected: the conditions of lack of several function of the dwelling spaces, inadequate furniture for activities that have been increased to the original ones, ventilation and natural lighting not enough, lack of green spaces inside the houses, among others. Finally, some recommendations are established that serve in the development of methods for the diagnostic of existing houses and newly created dwelling and thereby make them sustainable and resilient.