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Mapping the Megalopolis Glen David Kuecker

Mapping the Megalopolis By Glen David Kuecker

Mapping the Megalopolis by Glen David Kuecker


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Mapping the Megalopolis is an interdisciplinary collection of 10 chapters on contemporary Mexico City. Through topics such as the privatization of public space and challenges to existing conceptualizations of the urban form, this book explores the order and disorder that constitute the city in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations.

Mapping the Megalopolis Summary

Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City by Glen David Kuecker

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 flaneur 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.

Mapping the Megalopolis Reviews

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. -- Ignacio M. Sanchez Prado, Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
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. -- Eric Zolov, Stony Brook University
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. -- Anne Rubenstein, York University

About Glen David Kuecker

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.

Table of Contents

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: Bunuel's Fictional Geographies V. Daniel Rogers Chapter Four: Novelistic Cartographies of the Mexico City Flaneur 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 Maria Claudia Andre Chapter Seven: La Polvorilla: Seeking Self-Sufficiency in Iztapalapa, Mexico 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 Pequeno Seul 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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GOR012878437
9781498559782
1498559786
Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City by Glen David Kuecker
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Lexington Books
20171222
304
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