URBANIZATION AND LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF SOUTHEASTERN MEXICO

Abstract

In the multi-scale national urban scenario, the urbanization of the southeast region stands out due to the accelerated dynamics in a rural/dispersed and contrasting environment between metropolization and numerous ethnic localities and indigenous communities in precarious social and environmental conditions, but which have socio-territorial resources, attractive to investment in strategic sectors: oil, agribusiness and tourism services; along with infrastructure projects of mobility and transportation. Urbanization that rethinks development between forms of dispossession of common goods and the resistance of native peoples in their ways of life and territorial habitation. Local and regional development that puts in perspective to face the contradictions of developmentalism and alternatives from the subalternity. What characteristics redefine singular urbanization from rural/dispersed population centers and the forms of municipal development of indigenous communities of regional scope? To this end, the determinants of urbanization are examined with demographic dynamics and the structure of human settlements in agglomeration/dispersal areas and the social/ethnic profile, to identify development trends. A statistical review of the population and localities and conditions of access to common goods is carried out; together with planning/public works in community municipalities. Some results highlight trends of extended urbanization and persistence of concentration/dispersion, but with intermunicipal articulation due to infrastructural undertakings and some progress in local development, due to social/community cohesion.