Taken as a sequence of events, these [subdivisions] represent a city shifting its constructive energies from center to periphery, revolution to commodification, history to nostalgia—a place, in words used by native son Carlos Fuentes in 1958, ‘ancient in light…cradled among birds of omen,’ becoming a ‘city woven by amnesiacs.’
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| — | Keith Eggener, “Settings for History and Oblivion in Modern Mexico: 1942-1958” in Cruelty & Utopia: Cities and Landscapes of Latin America (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003), 228. |
