Mapping the Megalopolis : Order and Disorder in Mexico City /

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Mapping the Megalopolis is an interdisciplinary collection of 10 essays on contemporary Mexico City. Through topics such as the privatization of public space and challenges to existing conceptualizations of the urban form, it explores the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city in its s...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kuecker, Glen David (Editor , Contribuidor), Puga, Alejandro (Editor , Contribuidor), André, María Claudia (Contribuidor), Blair, Charlotte (Contribuidor), Johnson, Jennifer L. (Contribuidor), Mattiace, Shannan (Contribuidor), O'Connor, Patrick J. (Contribuidor), Rogers, V. Daniel (Contribuidor), Sierra, Marta (Contribuidor), Tovar, C. Patricia (Contribuidor), Velasquez, Karen (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington Books, 2017.
Temas:
Mexico City (Mexico)
Mexico > Mexico City
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Mapping the Megalopolis ; Glen David Kuecker and Alejandro Puga ; Chapter One: Mapping Subjectivities: The Body-City of Porfirian Mexico City ; Marta Sierra ; Chapter Two: Carlos Slim's Urban Imaginary: Plaza Carso and the Privatization of Public Space ; Glen David Kuecker ; Chapter 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 Johnson ; Chapter Six: Muralism, Graffiti, and Urban Art: Visual Politics in Contemporary Mexico City ; María Claudia André ; Chapter 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 Domingo ; Charlotte Blair ; Chapter Nine: Sense-Making in the Megalopolis: Navigating Korean Signs in Pequeño Seúl ; Karen Velasquez ; Chapter 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 City ; Alejandro Puga and Glen David Kuecker ; Bibliography ; About the Contributors.

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