Evolución y planeación urbana en la ciudad turística de Cabo San Lucas, Baja California Sur (México)

Abstract

The growth of cities must be guided by public policy whose main objective is to set up the urban space that is conducive to the full development of its people. One of the key tools is the creation of local institutions to project the growth of the city, as well as common living spaces for its inhabitants, where living places are generating a healthy vigorous social fabric. This paper aims to analyze the pattern of an urban structure for the city of Cabo San Lucas proposed by the Urban Development Plan from a polynuclear model, strengthening an urban center three sub-centers and proposing a number of improvements and an extension of current urban facilities.

Tourism and sustainable local development in the city of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico 1990–2015

“…At the same time, settlements for high income foreign residents were established, e.g. El Pedregal developed near the marina of Cabo San Lucas [5]. The largest territorial expansion of the city took place during 1993-2004, when many new neighborhoods emerged, e.g.…”

“…Therefore, as stated by Bojórquez Luque [5], these kinds of cities are urban spaces created or transformed by tourism, and conducive to the creation of residential tourist poles, territorial concentration and rapid growth of real estate sector (mostly unregulated). It is noteworthy that in cities with sun and beach tourism, urban development model adopts a dual or differentiated growth; on the one hand, the beach zone modified by the construction of large hotel chains, timeshare units, condominiums and exclusive residential complexes; on the other, marginalized areas for the majority of local population, historic center exceeded by the growth of the city, mostly informal commercial activity and a notorious urban anarchy, which leads to social and urban fragmentation.…”