| Summary: | This article is mainly concerned with analyzing and establishing links between the social and physical-environmental aspects of urban growth, based on a case study of metropolitan Mexico City. To this end, the author describes the general features of said city's growth and physical expansion, as well as the consequences of such on the environment. In order to explain the social conflicts underlying those phenomena and to illustrate the variety of social processes and agents that determine the configuration of the relationship between "city" and "environment", she presents a case study of the Ajusco region, pointing out its physical characteristics and those of its population, social conflicts existing before urban expansion, and those brought on by growing urbanization. She shows the link between both of the above-mentioned stages, the persistence of certain clashes and the rise of new conflicts, and stresses the interplay of a multiplicity of factors in determining environmental problems. The analysis is based on previous research conducted by the author and by others, and on recent fieldwork carried out in the Ajusco region
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