Strategies of containment
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Strategies of containment Drawing the periphery’s limits as a way to frame physical growth does not mean avoiding or fighting against this growth; on the contrary, growth is accepted and recognized as extremely important for an emerging economy like Mexico City. In order to propose a city as a self-contained unit, it is necessary to speculate on how the growth that would before happen towards outside, could now happen on within the city. Thus, before actually designing the form of these limits, this thesis builds four hypotheses – or strategies of containment– on extreme ways this internal growth could take place.
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