I Speak of the City
Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- Contents
- Review Quotes
- Awards

Note on Translations
1 On 1910 and the City of the Centennial
2 On 1910 Contrasts: Washington and Mexico City
3 Interiors
PART II. 1919
4 In and Around 1919 Mexico City
PART III. THE BROWN ATLANTIS
5 The Brown Atlantis
6 Transparency
PART IV. ODALISQUE-MANIA
7 Japan
8 India
PART V. SCIENCE AND CITY
9 Science and the City, Stories from the Sidewalk
10 On Lice, Rats, and Mexicans
PART VI. LANGUAGE
11 Whispers
12 The Street Muse
Final Word
Archives Cited
Notes
Index
“I Speak of the City is a work of remarkable erudition and interpretation of the modernity and cosmopolitanism of Mexico City. It is a work of rich implication for our thinking about the nature of modernity and of world cities in general. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo is a unique and exciting guide to layered history and cultural connections of one of the world’s great cities.”
“I Speak of the City is an excellent and beautifully written cultural history of twentieth-century Mexico City. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo displays a vast erudition as he takes the reader on a tour of the city’s literature, art, architecture, design, journalism, music, popular sayings, and—not for the faint of heart—the deadly typhus epidemics.”
The University of Chicago Press: Gordon J. Laing Award
Won
Society of Architectural Historians: Spiro Kostof Book Award
Won
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