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Colonia Diez De Mayo
Project Abstract:
Colonias and Irregular Human Settlements in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
Creating a Collaborative Plan for Community Redevelopment and
Transnational Investment in Urban Infrastructure at the San Diego-Tijuana Border
Project funded by the UCSD Civic Collaborative and Superfund Basic Research Program
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Project Goals:
coming soon...
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Research Priorities (and suggested topics for investigation):
coming soon...
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Full Description of Project:
This project supports a collaborative community-based planning project in Tijuana. The focus is on a low-income human settlement called Colonia Diez de Mayo located near the U.S.-Mexico border. Most of the workers living in this settlement are employed in nearby maquiladoras. Our aim---through a collaborative planning process involving a coalition of university, government, industry, and community stakeholders---is to create a redevelopment and investment strategy that will mobilize resources from within the community and attract funding from the nearby maquiladoras. The working hypothesis is that the San Diego-Tijuana region’s comparative advantage and regional competitiveness will suffer unless Transnational Corporations begin to invest more in local community development and urban infrastructure. This argument is nothing new; support for this type of linkage is well documented in the literature on new regionalism; even the OECD advocates this as a policy approach. The challenge now is to identify barriers and bridges to making it happen. This effort has been in gestation for over a year. The project workgroup has completed a model plan, website and a marketing strategy to fund and implement the plan.
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Project Participants:
Co-PIs: Keith Pezzoli, Carlos Graizbord (Planificación, Tijuana), Pablo Bransburg, Ilya Zaslavsky (Associate Research Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center), Andrea Groves, Dennis Selder, and Paul Akins. Technical Staff leader: Marcel Sanchez.
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Link to Narrative:
http://regionalworkbench.org/education/colonias/colonias.html
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Related Files:
File Name: Colonias and Irregular Human Settlements in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
File Type: imagery
Description:
Tito Alegría O. y Gerardo Ordóñez B. (2002) Reporte Técnico de Investigación : Regularización de la tenencia de la tierra y consolidación urbana en Tijuana, B.C.
El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Julio.
Techincal Report of Investigation: Land Tenure Regularization and urban consolidation in Tijuana, B.C.
Click image for larger version of the map (data from Alegría O. y Gerardo Ordóñez B. (2002), elaborated by IMPLAN).
Relevant Date: 2002
Date Entered: May 19, 2003, 3:28 pm
download file (right click and press "save as")
File Name: Industrial Pollution and Human Settlements
File Type: text
Description:
PROFEPA, Planificacion and RWBC collaboration
Relevant Date: GIS for monitoring pollution a
Date Entered: February 10, 2005, 1:54 am
download file (right click and press "save as")
Related References:
Colonia Diez de Mayo images
http://regionalworkbench.org/images/Colonia_Diez_de_Mayo/index.htm
Reference Type: imagery
Description:
Image gallery of the Colonia Diez de Mayo community
Date Entered: May 14, 2003, 3:32 pm
UCSD-TV shoot of the Colonia Diez de Mayo doucumentary
http://regionalworkbench.org/images/ucsdtv_10deMayo/index.htm
Reference Type: imagery
Description:
Image Gallery from the UCSD-TV shoot of the Colonia Diez de Mayo doucumentary
Date Entered: May 14, 2003, 3:33 pm
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