Between Walls and Informal Settlements: Affordable Housing as an Urban Regeneration Strategy in the North-West Mexican Border Region

This thesis is a specific research of the south side of the transborder region of San Diego/Tijuana and its drastic housing deficit caused by continuous migration and uncontrollable population growth. Together, the city of Tijuana in the Mexican side and the city of San Diego in the American side conform the largest urban agglomeration that borders this two countries. Focusing on a thorough understanding and critical aproach of Tijuana’s historical spatial planing and its consequential housing developments, the research aims to prove how border industrialization and contemporary housing policies have promoted the uncontrollable and unsustainable dispersed urban growth responsible for the dramatic spatial and social divisions that are represented in the morphology of the city. Using this critical analysis and projecting into the city’s immediate future in regards to its housing development, the thesis will give answers to the following inquiries: How the socio-economic trends have affected the inner city? Why are the disadvantage citizens marginalized in the periphery while the inner city has the capacity of further densification? What are the strategies to return or encroach upon the inner city in order to increase the housing stock in a sustainable way? Finally, seeking through mapping, design, planning, organization and evaluation, an alternative urban strategy is given for affordable housing that provides increased urban integration, greater densification and social cohabitation while promoting a needed urban regeneration tactic for the highly deteriorated fabric of the center of Tijuana. The problematic of this specific case exist in many undeveloped countries around the world, where the cities are not capable to cope with the phenomenon of migration, nevertheless the nature of Tijuana is much more complex due to its dialectic environment and its closeness and attraction with the first world. The thesis is submerged in this context and deal with the a gap between the citizens and the right to the city and to proper housing.

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industrialization
migration
housing deficit
densification
affordable housing

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