Preface

Part I. There . . .
1. Water and City
2. Matters of Ruins

Part 2. Urban Baroque
3. Water Again
4. “La razón de la sinrazón”
5. “Sueños de la razón”

Part 3. The Capital City of Barely a Nation
6. Imperial Capital I
7. Nation, City: Goodbye to All That
8. Imperial Capital II

Part 4. 1910, 1914
9. Celebrating the Pax Urbana
10. 1914: The Revolutionized City

Part 5. Walking the Megalopolis
11. 1940s: Making Sense of the Megalopolis
12. Layers of Cities
13. Earthquakes: 1968, 1985
14. 2020s: Extracts from a Perambulator’s Diary
Acknowledgments
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index