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Letter from Mexico City
Rosen, Roslyn | February 24, 1964 issue

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The article presents a description of Mexico City, Mexico. The bourgeoisie is on the rise in Mexico City. A ride around the Jardines de Pedregal would convince anyone that they had already risen. Gorgeous modern homes of charcoal and white lava stone compete with one another. Fantastic rock gardens can be seen through iron gates. In the Colonia Palanco, one of many substantial neighborhoods, well-kept old Spanish houses stand next to glass-parted apartment buildings, their stucco already cracking. In empty lots at the edge of the city, dark women wearing their hair in braids wash clothes in pails at faucets placed at intervals by the government. Behind them one can see the rotten shacks of tin, beaverboard, clay, straw.

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MIDDLE class; DWELLINGS; ARCHITECTURE, Domestic; ROCK gardens; MEXICO City (Mexico); MEXICO
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