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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Contents
Prologue: Making an Agglomeration Look Like a City by Néstor García Canclini
Entry into the Labyrinth: Chaos Is Not Something You Improvise
Living in the City: “If You See Juan…”
City Characters: El Chilango
Shocks: How Many of Us Are There?
Crossings: Memory Atlas
Living in the City: The Child Heroes (Los Niños Héroes)
Ceremonies: The Shout (El Grito)
La Independencia, S.A. de C.V.
Places: The Back Patio (La Zotehuela)
Living in the City: Oblivion
Ceremonies: Coffee with the Poets
City Characters: El Merenguero
Shocks: Street Children
Places: The Mausoleums of the Heroes
City Characters: The Manager
Crossings: From Eye Candy to Moctezuma’s Revenge
Ceremonies: “Do Good Without Staring at the Blonde”: Wrestling Movies
Places: Public Government Ministry
Living in the City: My Grandmother’s Outing
Places: Tepito, El Chopo, and Other Informalities
City Characters: Paquita la del Barrio
Ceremonies: The Virgin of Transit
Living in the City: The Conscript
City Characters: The King of Coyoacán
Ceremonies: The Bureaucracy of Mexico City— Giving and Receiving
Places: Fairs, Theme Parks, Children City
Places: A Square Meter of the Nation
Ceremonies: How Does the City Decorate Itself? From the Foundational Image to Garbage as Ornament
Crossings: Extraterrestrials in the Capital
Shocks: A Car on the Pyramid
Places: The Meeting Place
Living in the City: Rain Soup
City Characters: The Tire Repair Man
Ceremonies: The Passion of Iztapalapa
Shocks: The Anxiety of Influenza—Diary of an Epidemic
City Characters: The Quack
Places: Santo Domingo
Shocks: The Disappearance of the Sky
Crossings: The City Is the Sky of the Metro
City Characters: The Zombie
Shocks: The New Meat
City Living: The Political Illusion
Ceremonies: The Security Book
City Characters: The Sewer Cleaner
Shocks: The Earthquake: “Stones of This Land Are Not Native to It”
Ceremonies: The Aftershock, a Postscript to Fear
A Note About the Author
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