"Much of Tijuana's demograhic and economic dynamism is due to the city's character as a border town and its goegraphic isolation from Mexico's economic and political center. Tijuana's early economy, until the 1950s, rested on tourism and trade, which benefited from Prohibition and from United States' involvement in two World Wars and conflicts in Korea and Vietnam (Bringas R. 1991)".

Citado en :
Equity and Sustaintable Development:
Reflections from the U.S.-Mexico border
Jane Clough-Riquelme
Nora Bringas Rabago, Editors
Chapter 8: Socia vulnerability and Disaster Risk in Tijuana: Preliminary FIndings. Nora L. Bringas Rabago and Roberto Sanchez R.
pp. 156
Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD