Informal metropolis : life on the edge of Mexico City, 1940-1976 /

Informal metropolis : life on the edge of Mexico City, 1940-1976 /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Yee, David (Historian of Latin America), author.
Imprint:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2024.
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Confluencias
Subject:	Urbanization -- Mexico -- Mexico City Region -- Case studies. Housing -- Mexico -- Mexico City Metropolitan Area -- Case studies. Social movements -- Mexico -- Netzahualcóyotl. Urbanization -- Mexico -- Netzahualcóyotl. Squatter settlements -- Mexico -- Mexico City. Netzahualcóyotl (Mexico) -- Social conditions. San Juan de Aragón (Mexico City, Mexico) -- Social conditions.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13579840

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ISBN:	9781496241177 1496241177 9781496241184 1496241185 1496240464 9781496240460 1496225929 9781496225924
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Other form:	Print version: 1496240464 9781496240460 1496225929 9781496225924

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Modernist Metropolis
Mexico City at a crossroads
Mass housing in the Mexican metropolis
Part 2. The origins of Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl
Land politics on the periphery
Auto-construcción in Ciudad Neza
Part 3. The Echeverría years
Mortgaging the revolution : the early years of Infonavit
Strike : the democratic opening on the urban frontier
Fineza and land regularization
Serve the people : liberation theology in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl.