From the “Horseshoe of Slums” to Colonias Proletarias: The Transformation of Mexico City’s “Housing Problem”, 1930–1960

• Main Author: De Antuñano, Emilio
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Comparativ 2020
• Subjects: Burgess; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.26014/j.comp.2020.01-02.06; https://www.comparativ.net/v2/article/view/3034

This article charts how housing experts dealt with Mexico City’s “housing problem” between 1930 and 1960. In the 1930s, architects and planners understood Mexico City through such North-Atlantic categories as Ernest Burgess’ concentric zone model, an approach that led them to target central “slums”...