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Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico

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Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico - Villoro, Juan, and MacAdam, Alfred (Translated by)
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"Horizontal vertigo. The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes, which led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant fl???aneur, Villoro wanders through the city seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things, while ... drawing connections among them, the better to reveal, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of Mexico City's cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the ...

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Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico 2021, Pantheon Books

ISBN-13: 9781524748883

Hardcover