The magazine that analyzes the power of Mexican municipalities in the economy, governance and Mexico's relationship with the world.

2025 greets us with two certainties: extreme heat has become a structural factor of urban life, and public budgets—if deployed with precision—can redirect city economies toward resilience. In 2024, concrete advances set the pace. In Mexico, the Programa de Mejoramiento Urbano (Urban Improvement Program, PMU) closed the six-year administration with more than 1,300 public works projects in 193 municipalities, directly impacting 13.5 million people. These are not cosmetic number

In 2025, urban sustainability has ceased to be a matter of “good intentions” and has become a competitiveness strategy. In the United States, the deployment of federal funds —such as the Climate Pollution Reduction Grants and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund— is financing high-impact municipal plans and projects. By November 2024, more than $4.3 billion had been allocated to 25 state and local governments, along with an additional $27 billion earmarked for distributed climat