Juridical Definition of the Metropolitan Phenomenon in the Mexican Sub-National Context

En este texto se analiza la definición jurídica del fenómeno metropolitano en seis Estados de la república mexicana. Se estudian seis legislaciones estatales creadas expresamente para atender y darle forma jurídica a un problema que se ha acentuado con mayor fuerza en México, el cual desde el punto de vista de las instancias gubernamentales tiene mayor relevancia en los últimos veinte años. De este modo, el documento esboza el fenómeno metropolitano como contexto social. Luego traza los mecanismos constitucionales contemplados para gestionar y gobernar las zonas metropolitanos para, finalmente, exponer los casos estatales que ante la ausencia de un marco legal nacional, y desde la lógica del sistema federal, intentan sentar bases jurídicas para resolver este problema.This article analyzes the juridical definition of the metropolitan phenomenon in six States of the Republic of Mexico. Six State legislations expressly created for addressing and giving juridical form to a problem which has increased in Mexico are analyzed; from the point of view of governmental instances, this problem has been seen with more relevance during the last twenty years. In this way, the document outlines the metropolitan phenomenon as a social context. Then, the document outlines the constitutional mechanisms contemplated for managing and governing the metropolitan areas to finally expose the State cases that, before the lack of a domestic legal framework and based on the logic of the federal system, are intended to lay the legal foundations for solving this problem