Author : Emilio de Antunano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780355519358
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (193 download)
Book Synopsis Planning a "Mass City": The Politics of Planning in Mexico City, 1930-1960 by : Emilio de Antunano
Download or read book Planning a "Mass City": The Politics of Planning in Mexico City, 1930-1960 written by Emilio de Antunano and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the use of unexplored municipal archives that cover both comprehensive city projects and local conflicts over urban space, I offer an original approach to urban planning that integrates expert planning visions with descriptions of how Mexico City's urban periphery was settled and built. Rather than centering on the failures and successes of notorious urban planners, I provide a decentralized and local analysis of city management and politics, describing how land was subdivided, allocated among urban residents, and provisioned with urban services. Undertaking these actions implied, in practice, distributing duties among government and non-government actors and defining the proper scale (e.g., neighborhood, district, and citywide) at which they intervened in the city.