Global devices: the construction of large urban projects in Mexico City

Authors

  • Alfonso Valenzuela Universidad de California en Berkeley; Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Morelos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612013000100004

Keywords:

globalization, urban project, territorial restructuring

Abstract

The territorial impact of globalization materializes with the construction of large urban projects, which serve as contact points within cities related to the circuits of capital. By means of a gramscian approach we use Santa Fe Í€” a megaproject in the western part of Mexico City Í€” as a case study of a corporative development project inscribed in global hegemonic flows. Building upon the concept of global devices to designate such projects, they become the urban space link to global capital. However, such devices operate at a different speed than the rest of the city, as instrument of a vertical economic power in the midst of a distant, impoverished and unrelated to global flows horizontality.

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Published

2013-01-02

How to Cite

Valenzuela, A. (2013). Global devices: the construction of large urban projects in Mexico City. Revista EURE - Revista De Estudios Urbano Regionales, 39(116). https://doi.org/10.4067/S0250-71612013000100004

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