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An Interview For The Paris

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When asked about the inspiration for his work in an interview for The Paris Review in 1981, Carlos Fuentes replied, "...my books are derived from city images, and the city of my dreams or nightmares is Mexico City.”
MEXICO CITY — the city ranked number one and described as the “metropolis that has it all” in New York Times’ annual travel listicle, 52 Places to Go in 2016 is after all, a city with long and layered history tracing back to the 13th century. Founded as Tenochtitlan, it quickly rose to become the heart of Aztec civilization, and was in its era, one of the largest cities in the world. At its height, its population was estimated to be around 150, 000, with another 350,000 people in the urban network clustered around it. (Mundy 2015) Fast forward to 2016, Mexico City (Distrito Federal; or more recently renamed as CDMX, Ciudad de Mexico) (The Guardian 2016) has an estimated population of 8,919,653, (World Population Review) and an even larger population of 20.2 million people (Demografia 2012) with its metropolitan area included, making it one of most populous metropolitan area in the world. Mexico City, with all its fascinating contradictions - the order and the chaos, locally lived but globally organized, networked yet fragmented - is the embodiment of the context in which planners practice today. Issues such as equity (housing), congestion (transportation), environment (water management) that need to be addressed in Mexico City are the same problems that have
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