Mapping the Megalopolis
Order and Disorder in Mexico City
Lexington Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 22. December 2017
305 pages
978-1-4985-5979-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
26 b/w photos;
ISBN-13
978-1-4985-5979-9 (9781498559799)
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12/2017
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Persons
Glen David Kuecker is professor of history at DePauw University.
Alejandro Puga is associate professor, Laurel H. Turk professor of modern languages, and chair of modern languages at DePauw University.
Alejandro Puga is associate professor, Laurel H. Turk professor of modern languages, and chair of modern languages at DePauw University.
Content
Contents
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
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
