The Politics of Space in the City of Mexico
<p>This conversation with Alejandro Hernandez Galvez is the first of a short series recorded in Latin America (Mexico, Chile, Argentina, and Brazil). This conversation series attempts to be specific to the places where they occur and, thus, this one focuses on the politics of space in the city of Mexico. We begin by evoking the romanticization of poverty that condemns the latter to remain as such, as well as absolute otherness. The symptoms of this romanticization often materialize through the fascination that architects (myself included) have for the improvised/informal architecture of the city without consideration for the social mechanisms that produced it. Following these lines, the second part of the conversation questions the notion of “public space,” that constitutes a similar fascination. We therefore propose a few hypotheses about who might be thought in this term of “public,” and what politics of the city does this consideration hide.</p>
Host: Léopold Lambert
Guests: Alejandro Hernandez Galvez
Part of: The Funambulist Podcast