Abstract

MARQUEZ-LOPEZ, Lisett. Accumulation of real estate capital and social appropriation of public space in Paseo de la Reforma, Mexico City. Econ. soc. territ [online]. 2016, vol.16, n.50, pp.71-101. ISSN 2448-6183.

Since late 2000, Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, with great aristocratic historical tradition, has been transformed by national and transnational capital, with local government support, into a modern tertiary corridor reserved for corporate headquarters of large companies and high-income residents, achieving the reproduction of localized land rents, capital accumulation and the recreation of an iconic area of the modern, exclusive and exclusionary; ironically, its public space remains the scene of popular recreation and social and political protest.

Keywords : Paseo de la Reforma; tertiary urban corridor; tertiarization; postmodern urbanism; urban megaprojects; real estate capital.

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