Publication: México D.F. en los espejos de la modernidad: los rumbos de Tepito (1929-1960)
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2018-06-25
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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La presente tesis doctoral tiene como objetivo principal el estudio de la transformación de México D.F en una metrópoli moderna durante el período 1929-1960. Dicho estudio se centra en un espacio concreto de la ciudad , los estigmatizados rumbos de Tepito, una de las primeras periferias noreste de la ciudad. Este espacio se ubicaba dentro de los denominados barrios bajos y por su situación estratégica dentro de la geografía urbana de la capital mexicana y por su fuerte protagonismo en el imaginario de la ciudad como un lugar marginal y peligroso, resulta un lugar digno de estudio en la historia social y cultural urbana, para de esa manera, comprender con un enfoque micro cómo los sectores más humildes lograron alcanzar la modernidad y romper de paso con ciertos tópicos y estereotipos que comúnmente circulan sobre los barrios bajos y sus habitantes. La cronología del trabajo se corresponde con el proyecto de nueva ciudad capital que dio inicio a finales de la década de 1920 con el nacimiento del Departamento del Distrito Federal. A lo largo de estas tres décadas, la ciudad sufrió un proceso de modernización, que transformó sus infraestructuras urbanas y económicas pero que generó varios desajustes urbanísticos que tuvieron una serie de costos negativos para la sociedad, en especial para las clases populares. Sin embargo, la base del proyecto de metrópoli fue un proyecto social y cultural, la modernidad, que a través de nuevas prácticas y nuevos valores se centró en crear nuevos ciudadanos para una nueva ciudad . La modernidad incluía toda una serie de transformaciones sociales y culturales que modificaron la manera de vivir y sentir la ciudad por parte de los ciudadanos. Para el análisis de estas transformaciones sociales y culturales fueron utilizadas de manera entrecruzada diferentes fuentes documentales...
The main objective of my doctoral dissertation is the study of the transformation of Mexico D.F into a modern metropolis during the period 1929-1960. Such study is based in a specific area within the city, the stigmatised suburb of Tepito, one of the first Northeast suburbs of the city. This area was situated in the so called slums and, due to its strategic location in the urban geography of the Mexican capital and its well-known reputation in the citýs imaginary as a marginal and dangerous place, it is deemed as a place worthy of study within the social and cultural urban history, so that, in this way, we can understand with a micro approach how the humblest sectors managed to reach modernity and, at the same time, to move away from certain common clichés and stereotypes about the slums and its inhabitants. The chronology of the dissertation corresponds with the project of a new capital city that began at the end of the 1920́s with the birth of the Department of the Federal District. Throughout these three decades, the city underwent a modernisation process that transformed its urban and economic infrastructures, but which also caused some urban imbalance that generated negative costs for society, especially for the working classes. However, the base of the metropolis project was a social and cultural project: modernity; which through new practice and new values focused on creating new citizens for a new city. Modernity included a whole series of social and cultural changes which modified the citizens’ way of living and feeling the city...
The main objective of my doctoral dissertation is the study of the transformation of Mexico D.F into a modern metropolis during the period 1929-1960. Such study is based in a specific area within the city, the stigmatised suburb of Tepito, one of the first Northeast suburbs of the city. This area was situated in the so called slums and, due to its strategic location in the urban geography of the Mexican capital and its well-known reputation in the citýs imaginary as a marginal and dangerous place, it is deemed as a place worthy of study within the social and cultural urban history, so that, in this way, we can understand with a micro approach how the humblest sectors managed to reach modernity and, at the same time, to move away from certain common clichés and stereotypes about the slums and its inhabitants. The chronology of the dissertation corresponds with the project of a new capital city that began at the end of the 1920́s with the birth of the Department of the Federal District. Throughout these three decades, the city underwent a modernisation process that transformed its urban and economic infrastructures, but which also caused some urban imbalance that generated negative costs for society, especially for the working classes. However, the base of the metropolis project was a social and cultural project: modernity; which through new practice and new values focused on creating new citizens for a new city. Modernity included a whole series of social and cultural changes which modified the citizens’ way of living and feeling the city...
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Tesis inédita de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Geografía e Historia, Departamento de Historia Contemporánea, leída el 03-07-2017