All Rights ReservedDemerutis-Arenas, Juan A,Cordova-Canela, Fernando2025-02-102025-02-102016978-85-7785-551-1https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2618Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the southWhile sustainable urban development has been the goal of urban authorities since the publication of the World Commission on Environment and Development report Our common future; clarification of goals of sustainable cities is still in order. UN-Habitat launched in 2012 the City Prosperity Index (CPI); in the aftermath UN-Habitat has conducted various studies all over the world, among them one for Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (GMA), the second most populated urban area in Mexico. In GMA national housing policies have strongly influenced growth in the last 15 years, in an unsustainable fashion, but this could change. This paper discusses the relationship between housing development policies in Mexico and the United Nations’ Cities Prosperity Index (CPI). By assessing GMA as a case study, this paper also proposes pragmatic ways to translate CPI’s indicators into development requirements for new and existing housing developments in Mexican Cities.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject329-331