Antonine Ribardière & Bernard Tallet
Atlas megacities
Mexico
Atlas megacities
Mexico
Paris, Autrement, 2011. 88 pages, 17.2 x 24.5 cm, softcover. - 9782746714434
Among the world's largest cities by population the status of the Mexican megalopolis queries. After the phase of population growth and "monstruopole" of the 1980s comes to urban sprawl in its most diverse forms: closed residences for the wealthy, self for the poorest, peripheral giant subdivisions for the middle class ... The international financial capital alongside a congested transport networks.
actors uncover these contrasts, mapping out the lifestyles, amenities and gaming addiction, pointing to an uncertain future in the context of great social and criminal violence.
Here is a tool for exciting understand the Mexico of today and tomorrow.
Antonine Ribardière Tallet and Bernard are geographers, teachers at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and member of the UMR 8586 PRODIG.
Cartography: Anne Le Fur
Photo: Jerome Sessini
It lies in Mexico City businessman Carlos Slim, whose fortune has surpassed Bill Gates in 2010. However, the indices of poverty in this gigantic city are alarming: food poverty, access to care or running water difficult ...
Among the world's largest cities by population the status of the Mexican megalopolis queries. After the phase of population growth and "monstruopole" of the 1980s comes to urban sprawl in its most diverse forms: closed residences for the wealthy, self for the poorest, peripheral giant subdivisions for the middle class ... The international financial capital alongside a congested transport networks.
actors uncover these contrasts, mapping out the lifestyles, amenities and gaming addiction, pointing to an uncertain future in the context of great social and criminal violence.
Here is a tool for exciting understand the Mexico of today and tomorrow.
Antonine Ribardière Tallet and Bernard are geographers, teachers at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and member of the UMR 8586 PRODIG.
Cartography: Anne Le Fur
Photo: Jerome Sessini
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