Mexico City Airport Case Study | 2020
History and Theory of Urban Planning
Skills:
research | professional writing
Tools:
Microsoft Word | Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Transportes
Description:
Reviewing planning’s historic trends and the application towards real-world initiatives was the basis of this exercise. This essay presents a case study with Mexico City’s failed international airport, where the governmentality of megaprojects is the primary focus. The paper explores dualities among centralized versus communal planning practice and professional versus proletariat classes, and how these manifested in disproportionate planning decisions.
The work extends upon an undergraduate paper on the scrutiny behind megaproject developments written at the University of Wyoming but is nuanced by graduate-level urban planning knowledge.
Responsibilities:
- Updated knowledge on an ongoing planning issue in Mexico, carefully expanding on prior research with a new planning repertoire.
- Researched government documents, think tank pieces, and news articles in Spanish.
- Applied frameworks on megaproject development and urban planning governance to a key infrastructural initiative.
- Wrote a professional case study on Mexico City’s new international airport that explores the planning bureaucracy’s reproduction of injustice onto displaced people.
“The lesson of NAICM is how quickly planning, and planning-like actions, can become an agent of structural violence, particularly on a megaproject administered on a federal scale. Political pressures, dually orchestrated by a transnational class, encourage planning complacency and complicity…”
Read the undergraduate paper on Academia.edu.
Read the graduate paper on Issuu: