21G.S01 | Spring 2015 | Undergraduate

Modern Mexico: Representations of Mexico City's Urban Life

Calendar

SES # TOPICS
1–2

Introduction and Presentation of the Course

A General Cartography of Mexico City’s Urban Landscapes and History

3–4 Conceptual Tools to Approach Mexican Urban Culture
5 1880: Signs of the Metropolitan Development and Political Dissidence
6 The Revolution Arrives to the Capital
7 Cultural Nationalism, Avant Garde and Urban Spaces
8 Mexico City: The Bitter Taste of Progress (1940–50): Part I
9 Mexico City: The Bitter Taste of Progress (1940–50): Part 2
10 Carlos Fuente’s Comprehensive Gaze of the City
11 A Modern City. Place of Memory and Dystopia
12 Strolling Mexico City’s Emblematic Urban Spaces and Popular Culture
13 Tlatelolco and the 60’s
14

Post Tlatelolco Mexico City. The Decomposition of a Comprehensive Gaze

Prepare for the Debate

15

D. F. 1985: Horror, Solidarity and Destruction

Class Debate

16

Crisis, Democratization and Dispersion Part 1

Class Debate

17 Last Day of Debates
18 Crisis, Democratization and Dispersion Part 2
19 100 Years of Revolution
20 NAFTA and Mexico City Decentralization
21 Border Cities vs. Mexico City
22 A Global View of Mexico City Part 1
23 A Global View of Mexico City Part 2
24 A Global View of Mexico City Part 3
25–26

Conclusion of the Class

Presentations