Human Settlements and Planning for Ecological Sustainability: The Case of Mexico City

Part 1 Human settlements and the question of sustainability: introduction Mexico City's current status - a global and comparative perspective urban-environmental policy and planning - international agendas/local realities. Part 2 The Valley of Mexico: history, power and the environment Mexico City's urban-ecological coevolution state-society relations and the production of human settlements ecological arguments and the politics of containment. Mexico City's contested ecological reserve: the expansion of irregular settlement into the greenbelt zone of Ajusco key actors and the overall balance of forces popular mobilization in the formation of Los Belvederes -origins, structures and agendas. Part 4 Towards a poetical ecology of human settlements: grassroots environmental action at the frontier - the Colonia Ecologica Productiva movement ecology as politics conclusion.