The DNA of Mexico City
At the turn of the 20th Century, Mexico City had a population of around 500,000 people and as of 2020, there are over 21 million people who call the megacity home. It is the largest city in the Americas, it is the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world and it is the world’s oldest capital city. As we will discover, this is probably one of the most unusual places to find a city. The sheer audacity of its existence is inspiring and offers some of the greatest and most creative expressions of what it really means to survive against all odds.
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Contributors
We are hugely grateful to the esteemed experts who joined us to unpack the survival of Mexico City. Thank you to Dr Gabriela Jauregui, Tatiana Bilbao, Dr Onésimo Flores-Dewey, A/Professor Matthew Vitz, Professor Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, Juan Villoro, Ana Elena Mallet Cárdenas, Professor Felipe Correa and Lorena Zárate. We also wish to thank Gabriella Gómez-Mont for all of her support in the making of these episodes. Our full interviews are available on our Conversations page and will be available here soon.