Crisis en la localización de las instituciones de educación superior en el Zona Metropolitana de la Ciudad de México.

Abstract

The relationship between higher education Institutions (IES) and Mexico city, has faced, in the last one hundred years, periods of crisis in regards of location politics of university facilities. This text analyzes two of them: the first one set in the middle of the last century, when Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México’s facilities reached their maximum capacity within the buildings of the Centro Histórico; the second period of study copes with the last decade of the twentieth century and the first years of the twenty first when centrality has extended up to the periphery, increased the value of the land and the big extensions of land scarce. However it prevails the conception of a big concentrator campus as a territorial possibility for the most important public universities which coexists with private investment processes of small and middle scale that has arisen private universities in an expansive and differentiated way, with the model of facilities arrangement around the collective transport systems, usually the subway. We can presume different scenarios for public and private IES with new actor’s participation, big investors and financial corporations. KEY WORDS: territorial location, metropolitan centralization, university neighborhood, university campus, privatization.