Cultural heritage and urban modernity: Laws, events, and debate at Mexico City’s Center. (1930-1980)
Urban heritage in Mexico City has configured as a category in parallel with city growth in the 20th century. Different legislations enacted between 1930 and 1980, revealed a dynamic expansion and the need to plan and project the future of the city. Throughout these 50 years, government administratio...
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Facultad de Arquitectura, Urbanismo y Diseño. Secretaría de Investigación
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/drarchitettura/article/view/42797 |
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| Sumario: | Urban heritage in Mexico City has configured as a category in parallel with city growth in the 20th century. Different legislations enacted between 1930 and 1980, revealed a dynamic expansion and the need to plan and project the future of the city. Throughout these 50 years, government administration managed to build a legal corpus that consolidated its intervention and laid the foundations for the institutionalization of both urban planning and heritage preservation. During this historical process, some political, academic and civil society figures led to a fruitful public debate about the conditions of the city, the expectations of urban modernity and the urgency to reveal the present value of the old city. This article explores the events and controversies surrounding the interventions proposed for Mexico City’s Center, an emblematic spaces through cabinet research made at the Monuments Coordination Archive of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), the study of urban protection and planning laws, and press analysis of the time and historical studies, managing to integrate findings into the category of Historic Center Monument Zone and reflecting upon the complex process of institutionalization of urban heritage policy. |
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