The legal-conceptual problems of Mexico’s metropolitan areas: proposals for a new competence design

Abstract

The present text was encouraged by a double purpose: on the one hand, to ponder on the problems of metropolitan areas, presenting conceptual vacuums and some antinomies in Mexico’s legal system; and, on the other hand, to draft a new competence design for the current branches of government, as well as imagining new and appropriate political apparatus for the new urban realities. Keywords: city, metropolitan area, megalopolis, competence, government.