Queretaro's Metropolitan Area in metropolization process: 1990-2010

The effects of the metropolization process in the metropolitan areas of Mexico have generated a disperse type of urban sprawl. It's known that this phenomena flourishes in the globalization context, as a socioeconomic process that manifests physically in the territory and produces urban, environmental, economic, social, politic and cultural transformations in cities. Applying the territorial analysis approach, the study focuses on the metropolization process in Queretaro's Metropolitan Area, which has been noted for the accelerated sprawl on its urban surface. In this case, the methodology shows the urbanization sequential expansion in a metropolitan scale territory, and how to make a comparative exploration between decades 1990-2010.