1st Edition

Worker Mobility and Urban Policy in Latin America Policy Interactions and Urban Outcomes in Mexico City

By David López-García Copyright 2023
144 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

144 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book argues that urban outcomes are better understood as the result of the interactions between policies from distinct policy domains rather than from any single policy silo. In doing so, the book develops and applies the Policy Interactions Framework to the study of the mobility experience of workers in Greater Mexico City. Four empirical studies provide the reader with a... Read more

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. The Policy Interactions Framework 

Chapter 3. Diverging mobility situations of workers in Greater Mexico City

Chapter 4. Shifts in the spatial location of the demand for labor, 1999–2019 

Chapter 5. Housing pathways and the mobility experience of workers

Chapter 6. The spatial distribution of public and common mobility resources 

Chapter 7. Conclusion: policy interactions and the choiceless mobility hypothesis

Annex

Postscript: researching the mobility experience of workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Index

Biography

David López-García is a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Urban Planning and Policy in the University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, USA.