| Resumo: | In this article, an attempt is made to account for certain trends in the growth and distribution of the population, and in the structuring of living space in the metropolitan zone of Mexico City, relating census data, which have served as indicators for measuring the processes of urban growth and consolidation (at the level of the political-administrative units forming part of the metropolitan zone of Mexico City and the surrounding areas that are constituted with the addition of those units) with data from official agencies and with data obtained directly by the author referring to the production of habitational (living) space. Among the important conclusions of this essay are those having to do with the huge growth of some political-administrative units and the relation of this phenomenon to the practices followed by private realtors, of- ten articulated with the policies and programs set by the State's housing agencies, as well as those that associate urban growth and expansion with the development of habitational spaces with- in the so-called "formal" and "informal" housing sectors.
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