La forma urbana disputada: revisión crítica a dos planes maestros

Abstract

The 21st century urban planning has developed several instruments; however, it remains a weakened or simulated practice, submitted to economic processes. In Mexico City, master plans are part of these instruments that have become mechanisms to produce visions about the urban form of a certain area of the city, although always from the point of view from those who promote them. Thus, important morphological transformations began with a master plan mainly promoted by private initiative. The purpose of this text is to establish the need to reconceptualize these urban planning and programming instruments. Although the scope is not to initiate this task, it does propose a critical approach to the conception, development and implementation of master plans from which the “form” is understood as a final physical object for consumption, in order to emphasize the importance and urgency of a process of reconceptualization.