Kindle Horizontal Vertigo: A City Called Mexico Full
                      
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At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this
is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest
Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending
earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the
perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly
without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among
them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city
’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the
Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers.
In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics:
“Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he
achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci,
its spirit of place.
 
 
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