Mapping the Megalopolis 

Project Bibliography

 

 

Mexico City

 

Álvarez, Ana, and Förderverein Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, eds. Citámbulos Mexico City: Journey to the Mexican Megalopolis = Viaje a La Megalópolis Mexicana = Reise in Die Mexikanische Magalopole. Berlin: Jovis, 2008.

 

Andrea Noble, “Recognizing Historical Injustice through Photography: Mexico 1968,” Theory, Culture & Society 27, nos. 7-8 (2012), 193.

 

Aguilar, Adrian Guillermo, and Flor López. “Water Insecurity among the Urban Poor in the Peri-Urban Zone of Xochimilco, Mexico City.” Journal of Latin American Geography 8, no. 2 (2009): 97–123.

 

Arizpe, Lourdes. “Women in the Informal Labor Sector: The Case of Mexico City.” Signs 3, no. 1 (Autumn 1977): 25–37.

 

Bencomo, Anadeli. Voces y voceros de la megalópolis. Madrid: Iberoamericana, 2002.

 

Bliss, Katherine. Compromised Positions:  Prostitution, Public Health, and Gender Politics in Revolutionary Mexico City.  University Park, PA:  Penn State Press, 2002. 

 

Boyer, M. Christine.  The City of Collective Memory: The Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments.  Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1994.

 

Burian, Edward. “Contemporary Mexico City: Recycled Sites, Regenerative Landscapes, and Revalued Post- Industrial Enclaves.” Perspecta 39 (2007): 121–35.

 

Caistor, Nick. Mexico City: A Cultural and Literary Companion.  New York: Interlink Books, 2000.

 

Canclini, Néstor García. “Cultural Globalization in a Disintegrating City.” Ethnologist 22, no. 4 (November 1995): 743–55.

 

Cantú Chapa, Rubén. Centro Histórico, Ciudad de México, Medio ambiente sociourbano.  México: Plaza y Valdés, 2000.

 

Carrasco, David. City of Sacrifice: The Aztec Empire and the Role of Violence in Civilization. Boston: Beacon Press, 1999.

 

Castañeda,Luis.  “Choreographing the Metropolis: Networks of Circulation and Power in Olympic Mexico.”  Journal of Design History Vol. 25, No. 3 (2012):  285-303.

 

Celeste González de Bustamante, “1968 Olympic Dreams and Tlatelolco Nightmares: Imagining and Imaging Modernity on Television,” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos 26, no. 1 (Winter 2010).

 

Centro: Guía para caminantes. Revista, 2005. Out of circulation. (Hemeroteca Nacional)

 

Clendinnen, Inga. Aztecs: An Interpretation.  New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

 

Connolly, Priscilla. “Mexico City:  Our Common Future?” Environment and Urbanization 11, no. 1 (April 1999): 53–78.

 

Cope, R. Douglas. The Limits of Racial Domination: Plebeian Society in Colonial Mexico City, 1660-1720. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994.

 

Correa, Felipe, and Carlos Garciavelez Alfaro. Mexico City: Between Geography and Geometry. San Francisco, Calif.: Applied Research + Design Publ, 2014.

 

Craig Calhoun, “Civil Society and the Public Sphere,” Public Culture 5 (1993), 267.

 

Cuauhtémoc Medina, “La lección arquitectónica de Arnold Schwarzenegger // The Architect lesson of Arnold Schwarzenegger,” Arquine. Revista Internacional de Arquitectura, no. 23 (Spring 2003), 68-85.

 

Curcio-Nagy, Linda Ann. The Great Festivals of Colonial Mexico City: Performing Power and Identity.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004.

 

Díaz Barriga, Miguel. “The Politics Of Urban Expansion In Mexico City: A Case Study Of Ejido Urbanization In The Ajusco Foothills, 1938-1990.” Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development 24, no. 3/4 (Fall/Winter 1995): 363–96.

 

Dixon, Seth. “Making Mexico More ‘Latin’: National Identity, Statuary and Heritage in Mexico City’s Monument to Independence.” Journal of Latin American Geography 9, no. 2 (2010): 119–38.

 

Dowdy, Michael. “’Of the Smog”’: Jose ́ Emilio Pacheco’s Concussive Poetics of Mexico City.” Hispanic Review, Spring 2011.

 

Duhau, Emilio y Angela Giglia. Las reglas del desorden: Habitar la Metrópoli. México: Siglo XXI, 2008.

 

Eckstein, Susan. The Poverty of Revolution: The State and the Urban Poor in Mexico.  Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 1988.

 

Eckstein, Susan. “Formal versus Substantive Democracy: Poor People’s Politics in Mexico City.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 6, no. 2 (Summer 1990): 213–39.

 

Eskeland, Gunnar, and Tarhan Feyzioglu. “Rationing Can Backfire: The ‘Day without a Car’ in Mexico City.” The World Bank Economic Review 11, no. 3 (September 1997): 383–408.

 

Espinosa López, Enrique. Ciudad de México: Compendio cronológico de su desarrollo urbano 1521-2000. México: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, 2003.

 

Gallo, Rubén, and Lorna Scott Fox, eds. The Mexico City Reader.  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004.

 

Gigengack, Roy. “The Buca Boys from Metro Juárez: Leadership, Gender and Age in Mexico City’s Youthful Street Culture.” Etnofoor 12, no. 1 (1999): 101–24.

 

Garza Merodio, Gustavo. “Technological Innovation and the Expansion of Mexico City, 1870-1920.” Journal of Latin American Geography 5, no. 2 (2006): 109–26.

 

Goldman, Francisco. The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle.  2014.

 

Gómez-Barris, Macarena and Clara Irazábal. “Transnational Meanings of La Virgen de Guadalupe: Religiosity, Space and Culture at Plaza Mexico.” Culture and Religion Vol. 10; No.3 (2010): 339-357.

 

Gonzalo Aizpuru, Pilar, Dir.  Historia de la vida cotidiana en México. México: El Colegio de México y Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2006.

 

Greeley, Robin Adéle.  “The Performative Politicization of Public Space:  Mexico1968-2008-2012.” Thresholds vol. 41 (Spring 2013):  18-31.

 

Hernández, Alfonso, and Laura Roush. “The Vita-Migas of Tepito.” Ethnology 47, no. 2/3 (Spring/Summer 2008): 89–93.

 

Hernández, Daniel. Down and Delirious in Mexico City: The Aztec Metropolis in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Scribner, 2011.

 

Jordi Sanchez-Cuenca, “Landscape Morphology in Mexico City.”

http://www.thepolisblog.org/2012/12/urban-morphology-in-mexico-city.html

 

Johns, Michael. The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

 

Kandell, Jonathan.  “Mexico’s Megalopolis.”  Joseph, Gilbert, and Mark D. Szuchman.  Editors.  I Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Latin America.  Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 1996.

 

Kandell, Jonathan. La Capital: The Biography of Mexico City.  New York: Random House, 1988.

 

Lear, John. Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens: The Revolution in Mexico City. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001.

 

Lewis, Oscar. The Children of Sánchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family. New York: Vintage, 1963.

 

Lida, David. First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century. New York: Riverhead Books, 2009.

 

Maffitt, Kenneth. “From the Ashes of the Poet Kings: Exodus, Identity Formation, and the New Politics of Place in Mexico City’s Industrial Suburbs, 1948-1975.” International Labor and Working-Class History 64 (Fall 2003): 74–90.

 

Martínez Assad, Carlos. La patria por la Avenida Reforma. México: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2002.

 

McMichael Reese, Carol.  “The Urban Development of Mexico City, 1850-1930.”  In: Almandoz Marte, Arturo (2002) Planning Latin America's Capital cities, 1850-1950. New York:  Routledge.

 

Méndez-Vigatá,  Antonio E.  “Politics and Architectural Language: Post-Revolutionary Regimes in Mexico and Their Influence on Mexican Public Architecture, 1920-1952”.  Modernity and the Architecture of Mexico.  Ed. Edward R. Burian.  Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997.

 

Molinero, Angel. “Metropolitan Area Case Study.” Built Environment 17, no. 2 (1991): 122–37.

 

Monnet, Jerome. Usos e imagines del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México. México:  Departamento del Distrito Federal; Centro de Estudios Mexicanos y Centroamericanos, sin fecha.

 

Monsiváis, Carlos. Los rituales del caos. México, DF: Era, 2001.

 

Mundy, Barbara.  “Mapping the Aztec Capital: The 1524 Nuremberg Map of Tenochtitlan, Its Sources and Meanings.”  Imago Mundi, Vol. 50. (1998), pp. 11-33.

 

Ochoa, Enrique. “Coercion, Reform, and the Welfare State: The Campaign against ‘Begging’ in Mexico City during the 1930s.” The Americas 58, no. 1 (July 2001): 39–64.

 

Olsen, Patrice Elizabeth. Artifacts of Revolution: Architecture, Society, and Politics in Mexico City, 1920-1940. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008.

 

Piccato, Pablo. City of Suspects Crime in Mexico City, 1900-1931. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001.

 

Poniatowska, Elena. La noche de Tlatelolco. México, DF: Era, 1968.

 

Poniatowska, Elena. Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake. Voices of Latin American Life. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.

 

Sá, Lúcia. Life in the Megalopolis: Mexico City and São Paulo.  New York: Routledge, 2007.

 

Quirarte, Vicente. Elogio de la calle. México, DF: Cal y Arena, 2010.

 

Romero, Fernando, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Pedro Reyes, Raymund Ryan, and Laboratory of Architecture Fernando Romero, eds. Simplexity. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2010.

 

Rubén Gallo, “Modernist Ruins: The Case Study of Tlateloloco,” in Michael Lazzara and Vicky Unruh, eds., Telling Ruins in Latin America, (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), 107-118.

 

Sluis, Ageeth. “BATACLANISMO! Or, How Female Deco Bodies Transformed Postrevolutionary Mexico City.” The Americas 66, no. 4 (April 2010): 469–99.

 

Stanislawski, Dan. “Early Spanish Town Planning in the New World.” Geographical Review 37, no. 1 (January 1947): 94–105.

 

Tenorio-Trillo, Mauricio. I Speak of the City: Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012.

 

Tortajada, Ceciia, and Enrique Castelán. “Water Management for a Megacity: Mexico City Metropolitan Area.” Ambio 32, no. 2 (March 2003): 124–29.

 

Villoro, Juan.  “El vertigo horizontal.  La ciudad de México como texto.” Más allá de la ciudad letrada: crónicas y espacios urbanos. Muñoz, Boris y Silvia Spitta, eds.  Pittsburg: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2003.

 

Wakild, Emily.  “Naturalizing Modernity:  Urban Parks, Public Gardens and Drainage Projects in Porfirian Mexico City.”  Mexican Stuides/Estudios Mexicanos.  Vol. 23.  (2007):  101-123. 

 

Ward, Peter. “The Squatter Settlement as Slum or Housing Solution: Evidence from Mexico City.” Land Economics 52, no. 3 (August 1976): 330–46.

 

West, Rebecca. Survivors in Mexico. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.

 

Zibechi, Raúl. “Challenges and Difficulties of Urban Territories of Resistance.”  Pp. 49-65.  In Rethinking Latin American Social Movements:  Radical Action from Below. Marc Becker, Richard Stahler-Sholk, and Harry Vanden, editors. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014.

 

Zolov, Eric. “Showcasing the ‘Land of Tomorrow’: Mexico and the 1968 Olympics.” The Americas 61, no. 2 (2004): 159–88.

 

Urban Novels

 

Agustín, José. Cerca del fuego. México, DF: Debolsillo, 2012 (c 1986).

 

Bernal, Rafael. El complot mongol. México, DF. Joaquín Mortiz, 2005 (c 1969).

 

Bolaño, Roberto. Amuleto. México, DF: Anagrama, 1999.

 

Bolaño, Roberto. Los detectives salvajes. México, DF: Anagrama, 2000.

 

Celorio, Gonzalo. Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra. México, DF: Tusquets, 1999. 

 

Clavel, Ana. Los deseos y sus sombras. México, DF: Alfaguara, 2000.

 

del Paso, Fernando. Palinuro de México. México, DF. Joaquín Mortiz, 1974.

 

del Paso, Fernando. José Trigo. México, DF: Siglo XXI, 1982.

 

del Palacio, Jaime. Parejas. México, DF: Editorial Planeta, 2005 (c 1981).

 

Fadanelli, Guillermo. Hotel. México, DF: Mondadori 2013.

 

Fresán, Rodrigo. Mantra. México, DF: Debolsillo, 2014 (c 2011).

 

Fuentes, Carlos.  La región más transparente. México, DF: Alfaguara, 1998 (c 1958).

 

Fuentes, Carlos.  Cristobal Nonato. México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1988.

 

Gamboa, Federico. Santa. Madrid: Editorial Drácena, 2013 (c 1903)

 

García, Jesús Vicente. El gran vals. México, DF: La mosca muerta 3, 2002.

 

García Ponce, Juan. Crónica de la intervención I. México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2001.

 

García Ponce, Juan. Pasado presente. México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1993.

 

García Saldaña, Parménides. Pasto verde. México, DF: Editorial Jus, 2005 (c 1968).

 

Garza, Cristina Rivera. Nadie me verá llorar. México, DF: Tusquets, 1999.

 

González de Alba, Luis. Los años y los días. México, DF: Editorial Booket, 2013 (c 1971).

 

Guzmán, Martín Luis. La sombra del Caudillo. Obras completas II. México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2010.

 

Oxman, Nelson. La leyenda escandinava. México, DF: Editorial Diana, 1989.

 

Leñero, Vicente. Los albañiles. México, DF: Joaquín Mortiz, 2009 (c 1963).

 

Pacheco, José Emilio. Las batallas en el desierto. México, DF: Ediciones Era 1981.

 

Pacheco, José Emilio. “Tenga para que se entretenga”. El principio del placer. México, DF: Era, 1997.

 

Palou, Pedro Ángel. Memoria de los días. México, DF: Joaquín Mortiz, 1995. 

 

Pitol, Sergio. El desfile del amor. México, DF: Anagrama, 1984.

 

Poniatowska, Elena. Flor de lis. México, DF: Ediciones Era, 2006 (c 1988).

 

Poniatowska, Elena. Paseo de la Reforma. México, DF: Seix Barral, 2015 (c. 1997).

 

Puga, María Luisa. Pánico o peligro. México, DF: Siglo XXI, 1983.

 

Quirarte, Vicente. Amor de ciudad grande. México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2013.

 

Ramírez, Armando. Chin Chin el Teporocho. México, DF: Océano, 2010.

 

Ramírez, Armando. Pu/Violación en Polanco. México, DF: Océano, 2003 (c 1977, 1980)

 

Revueltas, José. El apando. México, DF: Editorial Era, 2005 (c 1969).

 

Sainz, Gustavo. Gazapo. México, DF: Joaquín Mortiz, 1965.

 

Sefamí, Jacobo. Los dolientes. Barcelona: Plaza y Jánes, 2004.

 

Sierra, Augusto. Colonia Roma. California: Universidad de California, Publicaciones Llergo, 1960.

 

Taibo II, Paco Ignacio. Días de combate. México, DF: Editorial Planeta, 2004 (c 1986).

 

Taibo II, Paco Ignacio, ed. Mexico City Noir. Brooklyn: Akashic Books, 2010.

 

Taibo II, Paco Ignacio. Temporada de zopilotes. México, DF: Editorial Planeta, 2009.

 

Usigli, Rodolfo. Ensayo de un crimen. México, DF: Lecturas Mexicanas (FCE), 1944.

 

Yáñez, Agustín. Ojerosa y pintada. México, DF: Joaquín Mortiz, 2010 (c 1959).

 

Villoro, Luis. El disparo de Argón. México, DF: Anagrama, 2005 (c 1992).

 

Villoro, Luis. Materia dispuesta. México, DF: Alfaguara, 1998.

 

Zapata, Luis. El vampiro de la colonia Roma. México, DF: Debolsillo, 2010.

 

Urban Studies

 

Barber, Stephen. Projected Cities: Cinema and Urban Space. London: Reaktion, 2002.

 

Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities.  New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

 

Carey, Elaine. Plaza of Sacrifices: Gender, Power, and Terror in 1968 Mexico.  Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005.

 

Davis, Mike. Planet of Slums.  London ; New York: Verso, 2007.

 

Davis, Mike. Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. New York: Vintage Books, 1999.

 

Gilbert, Alan, ed. The Mega-City in Latin America.  New York: United Nations University Press, 1996.

 

Glaeser, Edward, Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.  New York, Penguin, 2011.

 

Harvey, David. Rebel Cities:  From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. New York: Verso, 2012.

 

Harvey, David. “Right to the City.” New Left Review 53 (October 2008): 23.

 

Hodson, Mike, Simon Marvin, Blake Robinson, and Mark Swilling. “Reshaping Urban Infrastructure: Material Flow Analysis and Transitions Analysis in an Urban Context.” Journal of Industrial Ecology 16, no. 6 (December 2012): 789–800.

 

Hodson, Mike, and Simon Marvin. “The Right to the City--Energy and Climate Change.” Critical Currents, no. 6 (October 2009): 70–78.

 

Hodson, Mike, and Simon Marvin. “Urbanism in the Anthropocene: Ecological Urbanism or Premium Ecological Enclaves?” City 14, no. 3 (June 2010): 298–313.

 

Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities.  New York: Vintage Books, 1992.

 

Joseph, Gilbert, and Mark D. Szuchman.  Editors.  I Saw a City Invincible: Urban Portraits of Latin America.  Wilmington, Del: SR Books, 1996.

 

Mennel, Barbara. Cities and Cinema. Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City. New York: Routledge, 2008.

 

Merrifield, Andy. The Politics of the Encounter: Urban Theory and Protest under Planetary Urbanization.  Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013.

 

Merrifield, Andy, “The Right to the City and Beyond: Notes on a Lefebvrian Re- conceptualization.” City.   Vol. 15, Nos. 3-4 (2011), pp. 478-481.

Merrifield, Andy. Metromarxism:  A Marxist Tale of the City. New York: Routledge, 2002.

 

Mitchell, Katharyne, and Katherine Beckett. “Securing the Global City: Crime, Consulting, Risk, and Ratings in the Production of Urban Space.” Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies 15, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 75–99.

 

Mostafavi, Mohsen and Gareth Doherty.  Editors.  Ecological Urbanism.  Baden, Switzerland, Harvard University Graduate School of Design/Lars Muller Publishers, 2011.

 

Noble, Andrea.  “Zapatistas in Mexico City and the Performance of Ethnic Citizenship.”  Pp. 183-199.  In:  Young, Richard and Amanda Holmes.  Editors.   Cultures of the City:  Mediating Identities in Urban Latin/o America.  Pittsburgh:  University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.

 

Presner, Todd Samuel. HyperCities: Thick Mapping in the Digital Humanities.  Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2014.

 

Rama, Angel. La ciudad letrada. Hanover: Ediciones del Norte, 1984.

 

Rotker, Susana, and Katherine Goldman, eds. Citizens of Fear: Urban Violence in Latin America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.

 

Soja, Edward W. Postmetropolis: Critical Studies of Cities and Regions. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publisher, 2000.

 

Soja, Edward W. Postmodern Geographies: The Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory.  New York: Verso, 2010.

 

Solnit, Rebecca. Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.

 

United Nations Human Settlements Programme.  Cities and Climate Change: Global Report on Human Settlements 2011.  Washington, DC, Earthscan/UN Habitat, 2011.

 

Weber, Max.  The City. New York: The Free Press, 1966.

 

Critical/Literary Theory

 

Canclini, Néstor García. Culturas híbridas. Barcelona: Paidós, 2001.

 

Gregory, Derek. Geographical Imaginations. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994.

 

Kracauer, Siegfried. Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997.

 

Lucia Guerra Cunningham. Ciudad, genero e imaginarios urbanos en la narrativa latinoamericana.  Chile:  Cuarto Propio, 2014.

 

O'Connor, Patrick.  Latin American Fiction and the Narratives of the Perverse: Paper Dolls and Spider Women.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

 

Olalquiaga, Celeste. Megalópolis. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1999.

 

Puga, Alejandro.  La ciudad novelada a fines del siglo XX. México, DF: Universidad Nacional Autónoma Metropolitana, 2012.

 

Puga, Alejandro.  "Oralidad y escritura en la ciudad letrada: desde La región más transparente a Gazapo". Palabras al aire: Discursos sobre oralidad.  Ed. SIlvia Hamui Sutton. México, DF: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2013.

 

Sandoval, Chela. Methodology of the Oppressed.  Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

 

Taylor, Mark. The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001.

 

Zarco, Francisco. Escritos literarios. México, DF: Porrúa, 1968.