{"product_id":"informal-metropolis-david-yee-9781496225924","title":"Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City, 1940-1976","description":"In the 1940s, as Mexican families trekked north to the United States in search of a better life, tens of millions also left their towns and villages for Mexico's major cities. In Mexico City migrant families excluded from new housing programs began to settle on a dried-out lake bed near the airport, eventually transforming its dusty plains into an informal city of more than one million people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eInformal Metropolis\u003c\/i\u003e David Yee uncovers how this former lake bed grew into the world's largest shantytown--Ciudad Nezahualcotl--and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequality in twentieth-century Mexico. By chronicling the residents' struggles to build their own homes and gain land rights in the face of extreme adversity, Yee presents a hidden history of land fraud, political corruption, and legal impunity underlying the rise of Mexico City's informal settlements. When urban social movements erupted across Mexico in the 1970s, Ciudad Nezahualcotl's residents organized to demand land, water, and humane living conditions. Though guided by demands for basic needs, these movements would ultimately achieve a more lasting significance as a precursor to a new urban citizenry in Mexico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the first comprehensive history of modern housing in Mexico City, Yee challenges widely held assumptions about urban inequality and politics in Mexico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Yee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496225929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496225924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"David Yee","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45482171269375,"sku":"9781496225924","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d9cd17d2-ce24-433a-8b2c-885733089709.jpg?v=1715990207","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/informal-metropolis-david-yee-9781496225924","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}