Contents

• Introduction : delirious Mexico City / Ruben Gallo
• 1. Mexico City on paper
• Mexico, city of paper / Gonzalo Celorio
• 2. Places
• Insurgentes / Fabrizio Mejia Madrid
• Zona Rosa, 1965 / Vicente Lenero
• San Rafael / Gerardo Deniz
• Coyoacan I / Guillermo Sheridan
• Coyoacan II / Jorge Ibarguengoitia
• Division del Norte / Julieta Garcia Gonzalez
• Plaza satelite / Jose Joaquin Blanco
• Las Lomas I / Jose Joaquin Blanco
• Las Lomas II / Daniela Rossell
• 3. The metro
• The metro / Juan Villoro
• Voyage to the center of the city / Ricardo Garibay
• Metro insurgentes / Jose Joaquin Blanco
• The metro : a voyage to the end of the squeeze / Carlos Monsivais
• 4. Monuments
• Monuments / Guillermo Sheridan
• La Diana / Vicente Lenero
• 5. Eating and drinking
• The Chinese cafe / Jose de la Colina
• Armando’s tortas / Jorge Ibarguengoitia
• Vips in the early morning / Jose Joaquin Blanco
• Nightlife / Carlos Monsivais
• 6. Urban renewal/urban disasters
• Call the doctor / Jorge Ibarguengoitia
• Tacubaya, 1978 / Jose Joaquin Blanco
• Avenida Alvaro Obregon, 1979 / Jose Joaquin Blanco
• San Juan de Letran / Jose Joaquin Blanco
• Ambulantes / Francis Alys
• Cuauhtemoc / Jose Joaquin Blanco
• "Who’s there?" : the art of opening and closing the door / Jorge Ibarguengoitia
• Klaxons and the man / Jorge Ibarguengoitia
• 7. The earthquake
• The earthquake / Elena Poniatowska
• 8. Maids
• Maids I / Augusto Monterroso
• Maids II / Guadalupe Loaeza
• Chapultepec and the maids / Jose Joaquin Blanco
• 9. Corruption and bureaucracy
• Trimmins for the Comanche / Ricardo Garibay
• In the same boat / Ricardo Garibay
• The university / Jonathan Hernandez
• 10. The margins
• Garbage / Alma Guillermoprieto
• SEMEFO : the morgue / Cuauhtemoc Medina
• Index of Mexico City streets