Entropy in peri-urbanization: inequality in access to transport infrastructures in Tonalá, Mexico

Abstract

Mobility in the peri-urban strips has been experiencing multifaceted allometric growth, manifested in infrastructures for primarily motorized transport systems, which are characterized by obvious transformations and morphological configurations that converge with the entropy in the city system. Although this is not exclusive of peripheries, this is where deficiencies and inadequacies for some are intensified and recalcitrant improvements for others. This paper reviews the physical conditions and access to mobility infrastructures in the southeast of the municipality of Tonalá, Jalisco-México. From a system approach, we performed a quasi-ethnographic exercise aided by photographic records and satellite images. The results suggest that the urban-territorial planning process is inequitable and does not represent the negentropic force necessary to regulate the thermodynamics related to the exercise of living the city. In other words, there has been a lack of systemic conception in the planning process, originating excessive costs and time in the peri-urban mobility.

Keywords:
Entropy; Transport infrastructure; Inequality