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1. Religion

Introduction Mexicans are a deeply spiritual people. Religious images are everywhere, in car parks, gas stations, along roads in grocery stores. Mexico is…

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2. Building styles

Introduction Building styles on the edge of the city tend to be either very old or very new, going from the hacienda economy…

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3. Economy

Introduction The Greater Mexico City Area is the 15th largest urban economy in the world. Though the image of the periphery as place…

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4. Entertainment

Introduction Entertainment is scarce on the edge of the city. There is little money to support an entertainment industry. Culturally the deeply aspirational…

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5. Iconography

Introduction Many styles of symbols and pictorial systems clash on the edge of the city. One of the most interesting aspects to the…

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6. Music

Music as the most accessible expression of immaterial culture is naturally geographically fluid. All kinds of different music can be found in all…

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7. Obstacles

Mexico City has continued to expand through the Valley of Mexico until it reaches places where it can expand no more. Without these…

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8. Pores

Practically everything in Mexico City came from somewhere else. The only resource really produced locally is human beings. So the city must be…

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9. Communities

Community is hard to define. Generally it requires many different kinds of relation tp really be more than a group of people reunited…

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10. Dynamics of power

The dynamics of power on the edge of the city generally have to do with the process of urbanization. Power in the end…

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11. History

Mexico city was founded on an island in a lake in 1325. This means that much of the city’s history took place on…

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12. Nature

The Valley of Mexico is a biodiversity hotspot. Due to its varied climates and geographical features many different species occupy different niches in…