Urban Resilience and Cartographic Models for Landslide Risk Prevention, Mexico City

Various landslides affect homes throughout Mexico City (CDMX), making urban resilience crucial for adapting these adversities in the short term, aiming for civil protection measures to be established shortly after an incident. The central point in this analysis is the adaptation of individuals through urban resilience and short-term solutions to address any risk encountered; however, governmental preventive preparedness with the population is what genuinely establishes protection and actual care for residents. As an example, the Las & Aacute;guilas neighborhood in the & Aacute;lvaro Obreg & oacute;n municipality was chosen for study, where a landslide affected a house partially. Therefore, a preventive model was generated using map algebra, developed with Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which reveals the degree of erosivity and potential impact based on soil geographic characteristics. Cartographic results revealed different risk levels, which can be implemented in this study area through urban restructuring and agreed relocation, visualizing that urban resilience is not the only course of action; on the contrary, it is just a moment to be taken into account to establish protection in the population, replicating it in the future in other parts of Mexico and even in other Latin American countries where this problem occurs.