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During the current neoliberal economic times, a major paradigm
shift in urban planning occurred characterized by the emergence of
"urban megaprojects" as a dominant strategy in the construction of
Mexican cities. This work focuses on the megaproject of Santa Fe in
Mexico City, the largest urban development in Latin America, widely
decried as an insertion of a global urbanism imposed by
undemocratic means for the benefit of transnational capital. Santa
Fe was ambitioned as the most global place in the city. The
objective of this book is to examine the urban, political, and
cultural consequences of creating a physical space to be a global
service center. I would argue that the original aims of the project
of attracting global capital are being only partially achieved;
instead the megaproject is resulting in increased spatial
segregation, spatial exclusion, gentrification, and privatization
of the city space. The process of implementing urban megaprojects
at first appears to be omnipotent and unidirectional. However, I
hypothesize that these projects are highly contested by supposedly
powerless voices, and are thus continuously renegotiated and
reframed.
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