Development models and restructuring of the periurban road network in the city of Zacatecas-Guadalupe [CZG], 1971-2018

Abstract

In the early 1980s, the closed economy development model with state assistance was restructured to make way for
open trade and free market imports. The urban structure of the capital of Zacatecas soon suffered from the socio-territorial effects, and this encouraged t network in the periurban Zacatecas-Guadalupe. That fabric used
for the extraction of supplies from the countryside to the city for consumption, lost importance with the new development model when redistributed through primary roads, that lead to higher-ranking urban centers. The objective of this research is to analyze, based on road networks, the process of transformation of the peri-urban space
of the City of Zacatecas-Guadalupe [CZG] during the period 1971 to 2018. In two stages was organized the methodological
process. In the first, in a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) environment, topographic maps and aerial photographs were analyzed; from which gaps, sidewalks and dirt roads, and
highways were identified and digitized. e information was organized in four periods: 1971-1985, 1990-1998, 2000-2011,
and 2018. The second stage aimed at the spatial analysis of the road network in the peri-urban overlap, the inputs for its
execution were those generated in the previous process. It is concluded that the demands of the current development model, based on the confluence of private capital interests to expand the city, they used the existing road network and intersections near the CZG as tools for development, thereby promoting the
emergence of new forms of organization of space and landscape.