Book review: The City in Lines: Urban Corridors in Mexico City

Abstract

In the book “La ciudad en líneas. Corredores urbanos en la Ciudad de México” (The City in Lines: Urban Corridors in Mexico City) (Ediciones Navarra, 2021), the architect and urban planner, Milton Montejano Castillo proposes reading Mexico City vertically. To do so, he identifies patterns of urban corridors and reviews their definitions, recounts the approaches and methods of analysis of urban roads from a morphological point of view, and presents the construction of a typology of corridors with techniques for measuring variables of the physical structure of urban land to see which ones can be associated with each other. Based on a database of more than 10,000 observations and his own tables and graphs, he encourages cross-referencing this information with that of seismic zones and addressing the issue of real estate speculation. This project received an honorable mention at the XVII National Biennial of Mexican Architecture in the category “Print Media Books and Magazines for the Dissemination of Architecture.”