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June 24, 2005 - 09:00,
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Stanford Social Innovation Review&lt;/span&gt;

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Block by block, by Ricardo Sandoval&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;

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[Cemex] set out to study the “auto-construccion” market – the do-it-yourself home building business that dominates Mexico’s transitional countryside, where farming no longer yields even subsistence incomes, and in the ad hoc neighborhoods that seem to pop up almost overnight on the fringes of Mexico’s cities. The company put its faith in Hector Ureta, an urban planner by training who believed the company had to radically alter its business model to achieve new sales in marginal neighborhoods.&lt;br class=&quot;clear&quot; /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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