Abstract

ESPINOSA-FLORES, Adriana Soledad; FLORES-LUCERO, María de Lourdes  and  MEDINA-CIRIACO, Susana. AUDI model city. A failed megaproject?. Estoa [online]. 2022, vol.11, n.21, pp.63-82. ISSN 1390-9274.  https://doi.org/10.18537/est.v011.n021.a04.

Model City is a project that the government of the state of Puebla built to strengthen the industrial development of the new AUDI’s auto parts plant in Mexico. Today it’s said that it’s a failed project because it’s been habited only 15% of its total capacity. But to know if this project is a failure, we have made an evaluation that, for this case, was carried out through an adaptation of the methodology proposed by Saltalamacchia and Zicardi, who evaluate the performance of the local government. For this study case, the intention of evaluating the performance of the agency is based on the urban results of the Model City project, based on interviews, analysis of satellite images, urban regulations, and visits to the Model City, with the intention of being able to appreciate if the urban development of the city is in a process of consolidation, or in truth it is the announcement of a project in decline.

Keywords : megaproject; new city; government policy; sustainable urbanism; urban impact.

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