Urban growth and impact on environmental noise in the Azcapotzalco delegation

A cartographic analysis

Authors

  • Fausto Eduardo Rodríguez Manzo Departamento de Procesos y Técnicas de Realización, División de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño, Unidad Azcapotzalco, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciudad de México, México https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9175-2480
  • Elisa Garay Vargas Departamento de Procesos y Técnicas de Realización, División de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño, Unidad Azcapotzalco, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciudad de México, México https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0243-7401
  • Gerardo Guadalupe Sánchez Ruíz Departamento de Procesos y Técnicas de Realización, División de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño, Unidad Azcapotzalco, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciudad de México, México https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7719-3558

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24275/DPCE9114

Keywords:

Urban noise, Urban noise maps

Abstract

Environmental noise in large cities is today a cause for concern, because it significantly affects the general population. The large number of activities that are carried out in them every day, brings with it the use of technologies that in turn generate significant levels of noise. Noise from vehicular traffic is the one that has the greatest presence in cities, since it is constant and the trend towards growth in roads and the number of vehicles is also constant. Urban growth over time has been linked to the growth in the use of technologies that seek to alleviate or facilitate the lives of citizens, and vehicular traffic is implicit in this type of action. The development of Mexico City has been very contrasting between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 21st century and the impact that this fact has had on the presence of environmental noise in it is notable. In this paper, a study of this fact is carried out through the comparison of the urban evolution in historical maps of the Azcapotzalco Delegation in five periods: 1899, 1929, 1942, 1973 and 2010, and the construction of noise maps of the demarcation.

Author Biographies

Fausto Eduardo Rodríguez Manzo, Departamento de Procesos y Técnicas de Realización, División de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño, Unidad Azcapotzalco, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciudad de México, México

Professor Fausto Eduardo Rodríguez Manzo is an Architect with a Master's Degree and a Doctorate in Design, in the line of Bioclimatic Architecture with a specialty in Acoustic Comfort, from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco. Full-time research professor attached to the Department of Realization Processes and Techniques of the UAM Azcapotzalco Unit, since 1983. As a teacher, he has directed courses on Architectural and Urban Design, and since 2005 he has integrated the elective courses into the architecture curriculum: Space, sound and architecture; Acoustics and noise control in buildings; Noise and city; in addition to the Dialogues with Music course (classical music sensitivity course), the latter course is taught to students in the areas of design and engineering. As a researcher, as of 2014 he was distinguished as a National Researcher attached to the National System of Researchers (SNI), at level II of CONACYT. Author of specialized articles on venue acoustics, environmental noise and soundscape. Co-author of the book Introduction to Bioclimatic Architecture, in the Acoustic Comfort chapter, published in 1998 by Limusa Noriega/UAM Unidad Azcapotzalco publishing house (last edition 2002). Author of the book Space, sound and architecture, published in 2013 by the Limusa publishing house, and the book Noise and city published in 2017 by the UAM Unidad Azcapotzalco. He has participated as a speaker in conferences specialized in architectural and urban acoustics, as well as urban planning, national and international. Creator and coordinator of the Acoustic Analysis and Design Laboratory of the UAM Azcapotzalco Unit, since 2007, where research and professional relationship projects with companies and government institutions are carried out, such as the First Noise Map and Implementation of the Network Monitoring for the Metropolitan Area of ​​the Valley of Mexico that the Azcapotzalco Unit has carried out in connection with the Ministry of the Environment of the Government of the Federal District between 2009 and 2011. He is a member of the Ibero-American Network for Acoustic Engineering Research. (RIBIA). As a professional he has developed as an architect and consultant specialized in Architectural and Urban Acoustics: in the acoustic design of auditoriums and concert halls, distinguishing within the latter the Mateo Herrera Auditorium for chamber music, of the Guanajuato Cultural Forum in León, Guanajuato ( 2007); as well as the design of the K-001 Auditorium of the Design Division, of the UAM Unidad Azcapotzalco (2010).

Elisa Garay Vargas, Departamento de Procesos y Técnicas de Realización, División de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño, Unidad Azcapotzalco, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciudad de México, México

Research Lines: City, Space and Sound

Gerardo Guadalupe Sánchez Ruíz, Departamento de Procesos y Técnicas de Realización, División de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño, Unidad Azcapotzalco, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Ciudad de México, México

Doctor Gerardo Guadalupe Sánchez Ruiz is an Architectural Engineer and Master in Planning from the Higher School of Engineering and Architecture of the National Polytechnic Institute, and a PhD in Urbanism from the Faculty of Architecture of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Full-time Professor and Researcher in the Division of Sciences and Arts of the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Azcapotzalco, and subject professor (3 hours) at the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM. He has eight books as an author and 23 book chapters on architecture and urbanism, the last one: Urban processes in Latin America in the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. From hygiene to urbanism (In press). More than 100 articles between magazines and the newspapers Excelsior, El Sol de México, El Financiero de México, and El Peruano de Perú: the last one: Latin American cities between the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: from Hygiene to Urbanism in Architecture and Urbanism of CUJAE Vol. 41, No. 2 (2020). He has offered conferences and courses in Mexico, and the last one abroad: Urban and Regional Planning. Past, Present and Future" in 1st. Latin American Doctoral School of Urban Studies in the Doctorate in Urban Management from the School of Architecture and Design, of the Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná in Curitiba. Member of the National System of Researchers with Level II.

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Published

2018-10-24

How to Cite

Rodríguez Manzo, F. E., Garay Vargas, E., & Sánchez Ruíz, G. G. (2018). Urban growth and impact on environmental noise in the Azcapotzalco delegation: A cartographic analysis. ANUARIO DE ESPACIOS URBANOS, HISTORIA, CULTURA Y DISEÑO, (21), 135–162. https://doi.org/10.24275/DPCE9114

Issue

No. 21 (2014): Anuario de Espacios Urbanos, Historia, Cultura y Diseño

Section

HISTORIA URBANA

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