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Mexico City is one of City Lab's research projects.  It features a research collaboration between Professors Glen Kuecker and Alejandro Puga that commenced with the Mapping the Megalopolis project, which was a three-year GLCA-Mellon Foundation research grant that brought together a team of 10 faculty from five GLCA Schools.  Their worked aimed to integrate literary studies and social science explorations of Mexico City in attempt to "map" the un-mappable city.  The projected focused on the relationship between order and disorder by putting Angel Rama's The Lettered City together with David Harvey's iteration of Henri Lefebvre's Right to the City.  The collaboration resulted in the publication of Mapping the Megalopolis in December 2017.  Professor Kuecker expands on his work in Mapping the Megalopolis with his work on Mexico City's new airport, as well as considerations of Carlos Slim's Mexico City.  

 

Becoming CDMX:  Mexico City’s New Airport, Carlos Slim, and the Making of a World City

Working draft of Kuecker's essay on the new airport project in Mexico City. 

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Mapping the Megalopolis

Web page for the Mapping the Megalopolis research project. 

 

Mapping the Megalopolis, Order and Disorder in Mexico City (Lexington Press, 2017).

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Mapping the Megalopolis Webinar.

Webinar conducted by Professors Kuecker and Puga for the GLCA/GLAA's Consortium for Teaching and Learning.  

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Plaza Carso & the Privitization of Public Space

Prezi presentation about Carlos Slim's Plaza Carso.

 

 

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