Walking a city's history : Mexico City from the sixteenth century to the present /
"Mexico City is the fifth largest city in the world and one of the few veritable megalopolises in the Americas. Established upon a lake in the 1400s as the seat of the Aztec Empire and later expanded and reinvented with the arrival of Spanish conquerors, the birth of the Republic, and several w...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2026.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. There ...
- Water and city
- Matters of ruins
- Part 2. Urban baroque
- Water again
- "La razón de la sinrazón"
- "Sueños de la razón"
- Part 3. The capital city of barely a nation
- Imperial capital I
- Nation, city: goodbye to all that
- Imperial capital II
- Part 4. 1910, 1914
- Celebrating the pax urbana
- 1914: the revolutionized city
- Part 5. Walking the megalopolis
- 1940s: making sense of the megalopolis
- Layer of cities
- Earthquakes: 1968, 1985
- 2020s: extracts from a perambulator's diary.