Tito Alegría O. y Gerardo Ordóñez B. (2002) Reporte Técnico de Investigación : Regularización de la tenencia de la tierra y consolidación urbana en Tijuana, B.C. El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Julio. Techincal Report of Investigation: Land Tenure Regularization and urban consolidation in Tijuana, B.C. Click image for larger version of the map (data from Alegría O. y Gerardo Ordóñez B. (2002), elaborated by IMPLAN).

Click here for map of irregular land tenure in Tijuana by Tito Alegría O. y Gerardo Ordóñez B. (2002)

To download a copy of the study by Tito Alegría O. y Gerardo Ordóñez B. (2002), Click here (7 megabyte pdf file, from COLEF)

RWBC Colonia 10 de Mayo Project: Creating a Collaborative Plan for Community Redevelopment and
Transnational Investment in Urban Infrastructure at the San Diego-Tijuana Border

Project funded by the UCSD Civic Collaborative and Superfund Basic Science Research Program

Abstract
This project supports a collaborative community-based planning project in Tijuana. The focus is on a low-income human settlement called Colonia 10 de Mayo located near the U.S.-Mexico border. Most of the workers living in this settlement are employed in nearby maquiladoras. Our aim---through a collaborative planning process involving a coalition of university, government, industry, and community stakeholders---is to create a redevelopment and investment strategy that will mobilize resources from within the community and attract funding from the nearby maquiladoras. The working hypothesis is that the San Diego-Tijuana region’s comparative advantage and regional competitiveness will suffer unless Transnational Corporations begin to invest more in local community development and urban infrastructure. This argument is nothing new; support for this type of linkage is well documented in the literature on new regionalism; even the OECD advocates this as a policy approach. The challenge now is to identify barriers and bridges to making it happen. This effort has been in gestation for over a year. The project workgroup has completed a model plan, website and a marketing strategy to fund and implement the plan.

Co-PIs: Keith Pezzoli, Carlos Graizbord (Planificación, Tijuana), Pablo Bransbord, Ilya Zaslavsky (Associate Research Scientist, San Diego Supercomputer Center), Andrea Groves, Dennis Selder, and Paul Akins. Technical Staff leader: Marcel Sanchez.

Click here to view a demo of our first narrative: The Colonia 10 de Mayo

UCSD-TV did a 20 minute video documentary on the 10 de Mayo project. (#6022; 56 min.) UCSD Conversations: Crossborder Urban Planning. The documentary starts three-quarters of the way into a one-hour program (what UCSD-TV calls "Conversations with UCSD Faculty"). Specifically, it starts at minute 39 as indicated on the Real Player dial (the first two 20 minute segments focus on biology and pharamacology).

Click here to access the UCSD-TV shoot of the Colonia Diez de Mayo doucumentary
Click here to access more Colonia Diez de Mayo images

You can also get to it and similar programs by visiting the UCSD-TV web site:
http://www.ucsd.tv/library-human.asp#ucsd

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Non-governmental organizations

Click he to learn about Planificación, A.C. , a non-profit organization promoting the Colonia 10 de Mayo project and other community-based investment initiatives.