Cruz Solís, HeribertoJiménez Huerta, Edith RosarioRábago Anaya, JesúsPalomar Anguas, María Pilar2025-01-312025-01-312005-07-09Cruz, H., Jiménez, E., Rábago, J., & del Pilar Palomar, M. (2005). A study of urban land in the metropolitan area of Guadalajara: The expansion of the periphery between 1970 and 2000, using digital mapping and GIS. In Proceedings of the International Cartographic Conference.0-958-46093-0https://hdl.handle.net/10115/73218During the last thirty years there has been a great expansion of the city of Guadalajara and the surrounding urban area. Commercial, industrial and especially housing activities have brought about substantial changes to its morphology. From 1970 to the year 2000, the metropolis grew more than at any other time in its history, and during this time it has spread through the Valley of Atemajac onto agricultural land in the valleys of Tesistan and Toluquilla. Most of the growth of the second largest city in Mexico has taken place on public, private and ejido (commonly held) land without due regard to urban planning. This has led to the occupation of large areas by irregular human settlements with inadequate infrastructure and urban services, which in turn has added to traffic congestion on main roads and increased the exposure of the inhabitants of the city to natural and technological risks. First hand information gathered at ground level from the municipalities and the state of Jalisco planning offices, digital aerial photographs and satellite images, in combination with the use of state of the art technology such as Teledetection, the Global Positioning System, and Systems of Geographical Information, allowed us to chart the changing dynamics of land occupation and to identify urban developers as the principal agents involved in extending the built-up area of the city from 1970 to 2000.enUrban GrowthUrban PeripheryGIS (Geographical Information Systems)Urban DevelopersGuadalajara Metropolitan AreaBook chapterinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess