Abstract

SALAZAR, Clara Eugenia  and  SOBRINO, Jaime. Mexico City’s Downtown Area: a Job Opportunity Area for the Metropolis?. Estud. demogr. urbanos [online]. 2010, vol.25, n.3, pp.589-623. ISSN 2448-6515.

Downtown areas of large metropolises have seen a decline in population and transformed their economic activities as a response to intra-metropolitan population redistribution and changes in occupational demand. Does this mean that city centers have lost their centrality? Although the concept of centrality can be dealt with from various perspectives, they all emphasize the spatial concentration of urban functions and economic activities. This document analyzes the evolution of occupational demand in the Mexico City Metropolitan Zone between 1980 and 2003, particularly in its downtown area. The period of study is framed within a national and local context of economic restructuring and focuses on the role of Mexico city’s downtown area in economic growth and the creation of metropolitan employment, as well as its economic and occupational transformation.

Keywords : occupational demand; centrality; intra-metropolitan distribution of economic activities; deindustrialization.