Since the 1990’s, transnational financial investors invest in Mexico’ s commercial real estate markets, such as they do in most of the main metropolis of “emerging” countries. Those new actors contribute to reinforce the metropolis’ spatial sprawl and its regional structuring. This particular contribution to Mexico’s urban production is explained in two ways: first, the transnational financial investments’ specificities are explained by the intern and constraining functioning of the transnational financial network that is organized around concepts and tools defined outside Mexico; secondly, their concentration at the periphery of the central State of Mexico metropolis – the Federal District (DF) – is understood through the analysis of the ...