Case Study: Mexico City Modeling achieves sustainable growth and major resource savings with UrbanFootprint

Modeling a Strong and Sustainable Growth Framework for Mexico City

Mexico City Modeling partnered with **UrbanFootprint** to address the challenge of building an environmentally sustainable and socially equitable growth model for the 20 million-person Mexico City region. Working with Centro Mario Molina, the team adapted the **RapidFire** and **UrbanFootprint** models to Mexico to evaluate how future development, transportation, and housing policy choices could affect climate, energy, water, health, and fiscal outcomes.

**UrbanFootprint** helped generate and compare three regional growth scenarios for the Mexico City Metropolitan Area, measuring land consumption, infrastructure costs, energy and water use, auto kilometers traveled, and travel time. The resulting vision scenario delivered up to an **80% reduction in land consumption and infrastructure costs**, a **$4,500 pesos per capita annual energy savings**, a **20% decrease in annual water consumption**, and a **13% reduction in annual kilometers traveled by private cars**.