The urban form effect of population and housing dispersion concentration in Culiacan Rosales

This work is a research in progress. The urban dispersion or concentration is studied through population and housing density indicators constructed in the context of Culiacan Rosales, in an attempt to explain the urban form that is understood as the urban structure that acquired product of the different ways in which the population has occupied the land by settling in the city based on theories of urban land uses and the monocentric model, and its polycentric derivatives, defined at the Chicago school. The distribution of economic activities is also an important factor that also explains the urban form of the city, this article is not analyzed. The article concludes with some reflections, the result of the theories and indicators of population and housing density analyzed, in the search for possible causes that explain the current urban form that the city of Culiacan Rosales acquired.