The transformation process of the Lomas de Chapultepec

Abstract

Las Lomas de Chapultepec is a colony to the south west of Mexico City that began its development in 1921. Las Lomas distinguished itself from its inception for being a different colony in its layout from those that had been built in Mexico City up to that time. date. The architect José Luis Cuevas proposed for her a model of undulating streets with generous sections, wide sidewalks, large lots, with restrictions that made it necessary to separate the buildings from the adjoining ones and from the alignment. For 20 years it was slowly urbanized and it was not until 1945 when the gap corresponding to the upper part of Reforma avenue and the entire area of ​​Palmas was completed, the neighborhood remained a quiet area with little traffic until 1964 when it was opened the Monte Líbano bridge and with it developments in Edo. from Mexico. In the 1970s, permission was also granted to subdivide Bosques de Las Lomas, a subdivision that doubled the area of ​​Las Lomas and channeled all its traffic through Reforma Avenue. This significantly altered the environmental conditions. In 1980 the last of the growth stages to date began with the creation of the Santa Fe real estate development along the new toll road to Toluca. Today it is in a process of deterioration. This article examines various problems that have modified its environmental quality such as: roads, changes in population, increase in density by subdivisions, changes in land use and high real estate values.