“Monopoly is an American-originated board game originally published by Parker Brothers. Subtitled “The Fast-Dealing Property Trading Game”, the game is named after the economic concept of monopoly—the domination of a market by a single entity. It is produced by the United States game and toy company Hasbro. Players move around the game board buying or trading properties, developing their properties with houses and hotels, and collecting rent from their opponents, with the goal being to drive them into bankruptcy.” ¹   The Industrial City. 1.1 Monterrey, Nuevo León; Is a city in the north of Mexico, historical renowned as one of the most developed industrial cities, and with a huge influence in the national issues, because his relevant inside the national economy, in the last 30 years the city has experienced a significantly increment in the number of industries, and its capacity and the volume of  production. This increment is not only connected with the expansion of the existing industry, also with de apparition of new industries as a consequence of the investment of foreigner capital and from others region of the country; and too with the presence of new markets of commercial interchange of products in the global economy. Mainly in the mid 90’s the sign of the TLC, between de countries of North America: United States, Canada and Mexico, with the interest of open the borders for an international import and export policies without fees or with a lower fees. Nowadays, the industries with a headquarters from Asia, especially the related with the auto motor and its derivate; In the same way, caused by the impulse that the national government is enforced to the process and international cooperation, in the objective and the interest of investment and the employment generation. Employment opportunities. By generating completely new opportunity areas, growth for obvious reasons, demands that the workforce been sufficient in quantity and technical expertise, to meet its operating needs, sourcing, production, distribution, sales, etc. Consequently there is a considerable increase in labor supply; in an emerging economy, with notable and significant social differences and where the lack of opportunities for those who are part of the social base, seeking better living conditions generally reflected in the use of employment opportunities in other regions. This phenomenon has been driven largely by industrial growth described above, and the search for alternative younger people, for their academic and professional training in universities and colleges. Development of education options. The educational options increase, they diversify and new fields of research are now open in both public and private schools, since education is geared to the needs of the existing range of work dictated by the growing industry. The quality level of education that is developed, is now attractive for certain sectors of the population not only in the same city but also attractive to the population of the rest of the country. The city has now labor supply and high quality educational offer responding to the needs of employers, people from all over the country and some other South American countries have migrated to the city of Monterrey seeking development  opportunities labor, initially only the parent migrated to the city to try his luck and once he established the family migrated too; In other examples young generations after completing their studies or professional training, decide to stay in the city and take advantage of the jobs, rather than return to their town or place of origin. Migration + natural growing of population = housing needs. As a consequence of this migration phenomenon, the amount of the city population increased significantly, adding to this the natural population growth that already lived in the city. Given this significant population growth, one of the main demands that had to cover was housing, and one of the big problems that the city had to faced, was that the city wasn’t ready to meet that demand, the likewise, health services and education, transport, public space , etc. didn’t meet the needs of the new status of the city. Informality as answer. In the 70’s one of the fastest and almost forced solutions to the need for shelter were the irregular settlements, which are understood by those populations that are set in a property which are not legally adjudicated its occupation and where illegally and precariously built without expertise on building, and without access to public services; This is due to the lack of immediate supply of housing, the city was not ready for such conditions of population and much less for the needs of it. Over the next few years were gradually meet these needs, the government began to consider these conditions and investors and developers began to see business opportunities in this new need. In the next 30 years since the development of social housing boomed thus became the only option for many to have their own place to live and do not pay rent for something that is not theirs when the amount does not differ much the price of rental, people could have their own house by paying of this amount for the next 20 years, since the cultural issues of ownership and belonging is deeply rooted in Mexican society. Institutional respond. 1.2   Currently the city through programs that implements the federal and state governments try to meet the demand by means of affordable mortgages and these are used by housing developers to place their product, however housing produced by developers is a low cost product initially and low quality construction and is far from meeting the needs of the citizens, not to mention the lack of recreational areas and public space. One of the most serious drawbacks of these housing developments known as social interest, is its location, because are located on the outskirts of the city and several factors are affected by this site; as are access to health services, education, social infrastructure, urban mobility and public transportation. the deficiency and in some cases the lack of public transport, has a great impact on quality of life and welfare of the population living in these developments, the above situiation incites to use of private vehicle as transportation, with obvious consequences, as the spending that for families represents the purchase of a car, the maintenance and fuel of it. In urban issues, the above situation,  causes an increase in vehicular traffic in the city, which in turn causes vehicular congestion on major transport routes ; this at the same time, determines that the quality of public transport services, is not improving and efficiency remains very low. Currently approximate travel times on average ranges between 1 and 3 hours due to these conditions of mobility. Another major disadvantage is that these city areas being relatively new have not educational centers, sports and services for Medical care of the population, and these are another reasons why people should be in constant motion seeking options to meet your needs basic; without considering the cost and investment of natural resources and pollution that generate all these needs by not be close to the population. Externalities’ introduction The conditions that have been described, induce almost systemically to a series of externalities, wich are the reason for explain the low levels in the population quality life, and we can see this mostly in the suburbs, in houses where the population lives that were built under government coverage models, and naturally the people who live in these houses are part of the workforce of the industrial and productive system of the city. These externalities are measurable in qualitative and quantitative way, currently exist a series of studies and research in progress, whose aim is to achieve a greater understanding of the conditions of how the life develops on the outskirts of the city ; One of the most significant notes is the cost of externalities, since one of the clearest approaches that is used to give a universal outlook, is the economic one; this approach has defined certain patterns that allows us to evaluate the real cost of living in the periphery and herein lies one of the externalities they cause more impact; a home, as those that described above, has a cost of sale and/or purchase of around 16,000 usd as the initial price; As the location, and other conditions that have arisen in the following years are now a problem, the city government should develop a series of investments, fully justified just to allow the access to a series of social services to improve the life conditions of this population, such investments if they consider the total divided by the period and the number of homes that will be affected by these urban improvements, projected a price in real terms of housing around 90,000 usd, which is significant to show the impact and volume that the  externalities and their effects produce, and all of these is caused by the absence or deficiency in planning, or inconsistent or limited analysis ofvthe urban conditions and the needs of certain sectors of the population. The meta-evaluation as the way. The evaluation process is fundamental, for the understanding and the projection of changes in the political view and the programs that the public administration promotes; naturally these decisions have been influenced by some many factors; In one hand we had the political career, or the political image of the politicians, as an actor that is finding a personal development inside de political life of the region or country; In the other hand, there are some groups with particular interest, some many times this groups are represented by the figure of business men or the corporations, and the one that complete the scene is the singular condition of the policy making, since this is carried out in a very particular and peculiar way in Mexico, all this factors takes a fundamental part inside de process.. One of the results or consequences of the above, is that measurements or assessments currently being carried out, tend to be partials or manipulated, i.e. seek to show some result that somehow benefit or promote certain conditions, with a vested interest or particular; Generally these numbers reflect a state of apparent welfare, but would yield significantly different if we do a meta-evaluation. Consider the meta-evaluation , as a way to consider all the factors involved in urban development and growth of cities , such as Monterrey , would largely avoid or mitigate the problems described, and which are common in many cities Latin American , and would allow us to put into perspective the realities of most of the population, and put these realities above the interests of the individuals or small groups of population that are the ones with more influence of how the city will develop cause they have the wealth to do the investments, and try to project a time of change, in which all carry equal benefit, and that the achieving of this improvement are the welfare conditions and quality of life.   ¹

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