Mapping the Megalopolis

Order and Disorder in Mexico City
Herausgeber: Kuecker, Glen David; Puga, Alejandro

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781498559782
• ISBN-10: 1498559786
• Artikelnr.: 49455248

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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