Informal metropolis : life on the edge of Mexico City, 1940-1976 /

Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world's largest shantytown, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequality in twentieth-century Mexico.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Yee, David (Historian of Latin America) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024].
Series:Confluencias (Lincoln, Neb.)
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Description
Summary:Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world's largest shantytown, Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl, and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequality in twentieth-century Mexico.
Physical Description:xxvi, 268 pages, [5] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781496225924
1496225929
9781496240460
1496240464