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The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz

The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz

Johns, Michael

Paperback

Individual ArtistsMexican History

ISBN10: 0292740484
ISBN13: 9780292740488
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Sep 1 1997
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.04 Depth: 9.02
Language: English

Mexico City assumed its current character around the turn of the twentieth century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911). In those years, wealthy Mexicans moved away from the Zócalo, the city's traditional center, to western suburbs where they sought to imitate European and American ways of life. At the same time, poorer Mexicans, many of whom were peasants, crowded into eastern suburbs that lacked such basic amenities as schools, potable water, and adequate sewerage. These slums looked and felt more like rural villages than city neighborhoods. A century--and some twenty million more inhabitants--later, Mexico City retains its divided, robust, and almost labyrinthine character.

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