Mexico City Mobilities: The People, Politics, and Pathways that Built a Metropolis

An essential resource for students and scholars of Latin American history, urban studies, and the history of mobility and transport.

Mexico City Mobilities is the first comprehensive study to place regional mobility and transportation infrastructure at the center of the Mexican capital’s two-hundred-year history. Beginning in 1824, when a fledgling national capital began to define its political and territorial identity, historian Michael K. Bess traces the evolution of “mobility politics”—th...