Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976

Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world's largest shantytown--Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl--and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequality in twentieth-century Mexico

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Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
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2024-11-07
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Latin American Urban Studies
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Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976

Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
Latin American Urban Studies
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Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940–1976

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Abstract

Informal Metropolis uncovers how a former lake bed on the edge of Mexico City grew into the world's largest shantytown--Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl--and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequality in twentieth-century Mexico

Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University)
Sustainable cities and communities
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Latin American Urban Studies
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