Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City
Editat de Glen David Kuecker, Alejandro Puga Contribuţii de María Claudia André, Charlotte Blair, Jennifer L. Johnson, Shannan Mattiace, Patrick J. O'Connor, V. Daniel Rogers, Marta Sierra, C. Patricia Tovar, Karen Velasquezen Limba Engleză Hardback – 22 dec 2017
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781498559782
ISBN-10: 1498559786
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 26 b/w photos;
Dimensiuni: 160 x 237 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1498559786
Pagini: 320
Ilustrații: 26 b/w photos;
Dimensiuni: 160 x 237 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.64 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Lexington Books
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
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
Recenzii
Mapping the Megalopolis is a most valuable contribution to the ever-challenging task of reading Mexico City, its spaces, and its cultures. The collective reflection on order and disorder provides new directions to think and theorize urban space in the grand Megalopolis of Latin America, in ways that help us think about the city as a problem in the global era.
This exceptionally timely and coherent collection of essays maps out one of the most unmappable cities of the world. The reader comes away not only with a deeper appreciation of Mexico City as a place where elite visions of progress are repeatedly undermined by quotidian disorder, but of the "deliriousness" of the modern megalopolis itself-the twenty-first century city teetering precariously on a ledge between modernity and a dystopian future.
This delightful compilation will give students, scholars, and travelers a good sense of present-day Mexico City, and its historic roots, from many disciplinary angles. It offers readers a fair consideration of the challenges which chilangos face; but more importantly it reveals the artistry, persistence, and resilience with which they confront life in the big city.
This exceptionally timely and coherent collection of essays maps out one of the most unmappable cities of the world. The reader comes away not only with a deeper appreciation of Mexico City as a place where elite visions of progress are repeatedly undermined by quotidian disorder, but of the "deliriousness" of the modern megalopolis itself-the twenty-first century city teetering precariously on a ledge between modernity and a dystopian future.
This delightful compilation will give students, scholars, and travelers a good sense of present-day Mexico City, and its historic roots, from many disciplinary angles. It offers readers a fair consideration of the challenges which chilangos face; but more importantly it reveals the artistry, persistence, and resilience with which they confront life in the big city.