- A Different Approach for Spatial Planning of the Tlalpan Delegation in Mexico City    353 kb by    Greene, Fernando | gondiana@hotmail.com    Short Outline This paper deals with the way in which territorial planning for a county of Mexico City is being done and informs of the confrontation of viewpoints between city and regional planners and environmentalists and new techniques utilized in the planning process. Abstract ABSTRACT Author`s information: Fernando Greene Castillo Personal involvement in the project: I am the chairman of the Postgraduate in the Urban Planning Program at the University of Mexico (UNAM). Part of the activities of this program deals with projects with official institutions where professors and pupils participate. In the project , which is the basis of this paper, I am the director coordinating all the activities. Title : A Different Approach for Spatial Planning of the Tlalpan Delegation in Mexico City. Tlalpan is the largest county of Mexico City. From its 308 square kilometers, 20% is urban , with a population of 580,000 inhabitants. An important part of the area, is a montaneous forest region of volcanic subsoil which permiates the heavy rain of the area to the undergrounds of Mexico City, from which 70% of the water supply for 20 million inhabitants is provided. On this area three small towns with a very rapid growth are located, occupying more space every day and therefore taking area for the filtration of water and reducing the forest, which is of capital importance for the attraction of rain, and for purifying the air polution. Interest for participants 1. To elaborate this project we deal with two different approaches, the one of urban planners like my self and the planning perspective of scholars with an environmental perspective,hence, creating a conflict which have to be resolved anyway in order to have a reasonable project. 2. Thanks to new computer software and hardware, we were able to make territorial population distribution analysis, with new procedures designed by my team which in the Mexican context are a novelty. 3. As a framework of refference for our project, we have to consider two comprehensive plans for the City, the urban and the ecological plans, in general consistent, but when you enlarge the scale for the analysis of just a part of the city you have to deal with many problems. Preferred Parallel Session: Needs of Urban Planning. Parallel Session No. 2 Keywords territorial planning Case Study presented on the ISOCARP Congress 2004: Management of Urban Regions   Click to open the full paper as pdf document   Click to send an email to the author(s) of this paper