The DNA of Mexico City - Part II
Welcome to Part II of The DNA of Mexico City. This is the episode where we explore the kinds of traits and characteristics that Mexico City has inherited through its history and where we might see, feel and experience them today.
If our first episode on The DNA of Mexico City could be summarised in one word, it would be ‘survival’ and in this episode, the term that comes up again and again is ‘layering’.
We are hugely grateful to the esteemed experts who joined us in this episode to unpack the decode The DNA of Mexico City. Thank you to Dr Gabriela Jauregui, Tatiana Bilbao, Onésimo Flores-Dewey, A/Professor Matthew Vitz, Professor Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo, Juan Villoro, Ana Elena Mallet Cárdenas, Professor Felipe Correa and Lorena Zárate. We also wish to thank Gabriela Gómez-Mont for all of her support in the making of these episodes.
To discover more about The DNA of Mexico and our guests, check out:
Feral by Gabriela Jauregui Clara Porset: Butaque by Ana Elena Mallet Horizontal Vertigo by Juan Villoro A City on a Lake by Matt Vitz Mexico City: Between Geometry and Geography by Felipe Correa Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs by Camilla Townsend I Speak of the City by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo Lorena Zárate's writing on the right to the city Onésimo Flores Dewey's writing on transport and infrastructure–
Bass Vibes - Rollin at 5 by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Sound design by Dainius Kacinskas.
The DNA of Cities
We know that there are over 10,000 cities in the world. We also know that there is something unique about every city. But what is it that makes each city feel, move, look and act so differently?
In this podcast, Professor Greg Clark CBE and Caitlin Morrissey bring together over 70 inspirational leaders from the worlds of urban history, politics, art, architecture and more to decode The DNA of Cities.
- No. of episodes: 49
- Latest episode: 2025-06-12
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