These criteria developed by the ULI are based on 6 European cities. It is presented as a formula, with a list of ingredients forachieve “good density”, however for the purposes of this research such criteria are understood merely as ingredients and notas a formula, city management tends to be more dynamic by adding the fact that we are facing a context with acomplexity different from the European one: less infrastructure funds and public support, different socio-cultural and historical phenomena, greaterbrownfields arrangement, different economic structure among other issues.The criteria will be taken as a basis and after an analysis of the Monterrey Metropolitan Area and San Pedro Garza Garcia will betropicalize a local context.
MOBILITY AT A METROPOLITAN AREA
Due to the fact that housing is located onthe outskirts, and jobs are concentrated in theCenter of Mty and in certain areas of San Pedro Garza Garcia, the city is oriented towardsthe car because of the distances that must becovered daily, leaving aside the improvementof pedestrian infrastructure for those who travel on foot or by bicycle, and for lack of directintermunicipal routes, the private car remainsthe main means of transport in the AMM.
MONTERREY AREA ANALYSIS
There is a relationship between density and land costs in the MMA where the higher the cost the lower the density. In terms of concentration of employment, there is anucleus located in the historic center of Mty and in the northern zone of SPGG. Thisclearly reflects the effects of a dispersed city in which the population begins to livein the outskirts and remains a centrally located work center with high land costs.
SAN PEDRO GARZA GARCIA ANALYSIS
San Pedro Garza Garcia is understood as a fragmented municipality, in which twocity schemes are identified: concentrated areas of activity with high percentagesof commercial use and services where public transport routes and employment nucle are concentrated under a linear and dispersed growth trend, on the other handlow density areas and activity with uses mostly of single-family homes under a garden city scheme that work as buffers of the concentrated areas of development.
