@article {633533,
	title = {Urban Transport, Dependent Development and Change: Lessons from a Case Study of Mexico City{\textquoteright}s Subway},
	journal = {Canadian Journal of Development Studies},
	volume = {12},
	number = {2},
	year = {1991},
	pages = {329-355},
	abstract = {From a case study of the 1965 decision to build Mexico City{\textquoteright}s subway and the conflicts it engendered between 1964 and 1976, we see the political origins and developmental effects of mass rapid transit in LDC{\textquoteright}s. The paper validates basic premises of the political economy perspective; but instead of situating the subway policy{\textquoteright}s implementation in the context of interclass conflicts between capital and labor, it shows that cross-class alliances, intraclass divisions, and state-class alliances determined transport policy stances, and that these problematic alliances and divisions emerged from unique patterns of urban concentration, class formation, and state composition associated with Mexico{\textquoteright}s peripheral status in the world economy. It also shows that the subway{\textquoteright}s contentious introduction altered national development trajectories, not by changing land use or labor force mobility but by modifying the balance of state and class power in Mexico.},
	url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02255189.1991.12005923},
	author = {Diane E. Davis}
}
