There exists a dearth of critical data on Mexico City’s rapidly transforming urban landscape, particularly with respect to the visual representation and spatial documentation of informality, property rights arrangements, the illicit economy, crime, and insecurity, as well as their relationships to each other. Better knowledge of key environmental risks and how they relate to other vulnerabilities is also a high priority, particularly with respect to water and other ecological challenges that impact built form, urban servicing, and resource distributions. A primary goal of the MCI will be to compile at Spatial Atlas of Vulnerabilities in the Mexico City metropolitan area, using this data to generate further research and hypothesis testing about the sources and solutions to more sustainable urbanism.