Mapping the Megalopolis

Order and Disorder in Mexico City

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flâneur and other urban actors. Mexico City is truly a city of versions, and Mapping the Megalopolis celebrates the intersection of the image of the city and the lived experience of it. Readers will find substantive entries on a great variety of Mexico City’s monumental and counter-monumental spaces, as well as some of its pivotal contemporary debates and cultural products. The volume serves both as supplemental reading on the world city or the Latin American city, and as a central text in a multidisciplinary study of Mexico City.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-12-22
Mått160 x 237 x 24 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498559782

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ContentsIntroduction: Mapping the Megalopolis Glen David Kuecker and Alejandro Puga Chapter One: Mapping Subjectivities: The Body-City of Porfirian Mexico City Marta SierraChapter Two: Carlos Slim’s Urban Imaginary: Plaza Carso and the Privatization of Public Space Glen David KueckerChapter Three: Buñuel's Fictional Geographies V. Daniel Rogers Chapter Four: Novelistic Cartographies of the Mexico City Flâneur Alejandro Puga and Patricia Tovar Chapter Five: Securing the City in Santa Fe: Privatization and Preservation Shannan Mattiace and Jennifer JohnsonChapter Six: Muralism, Graffiti, and Urban Art: Visual Politics in Contemporary Mexico CityMaría Claudia AndréChapter Seven: La Polvorilla: Seeking Self-Sufficiency in Iztapalapa, México D.F.Jennifer Johnson and Shannan Mattiace Chapter Eight: Porous Urbanism: Order and Disorder in Colonia Santo DomingoCharlotte BlairChapter Nine: Sense-Making in the Megalopolis: Navigating Korean Signs in Pequeño SeúlKaren VelasquezChapter Ten: Riding a Tandem Bicycle: Valeria Luiselli Maps the Sidewalks of Mexico City Patrick O’Connor Conclusion: From DF to CDMX: The (Dis)order of Becoming a World CityAlejandro Puga and Glen David KueckerBibliographyAbout the Contributors