| Sumario: | Here regional urbanization in Mexico is studied as a function of income level and production structures. This general model allows us to identify four characteristics that are inherent to urban development for the 1970-1990 period. First, increasing differences in income level between urban and rural states and regions. Second, a centrifuge movement of manufactures from major cities (Mexico City and Monterrey) towards their urban surroundings. Third, reconcentration of commercial activities and services in places with higher incomes and higher levels of development. Finally, the eighties appear as an inflection point in the national urbanization process characterized by general decrease of income levels, increase of territorial inequalities, de-industrialization of the main metropolitan areas, and appearance of nuclei highly capable of concentrating tertiary activities and relatively independent of their regions of inmediate influence.
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