Santa Fé (México): Megaproyectos para una ciudad dividida

Abstract

Ever since Globalization’s narrative was presented as an inevitable destiny of modernity, some critics start now to question the variety of exchanges, disencounters and inequities that it produces. Following Garcia-Canclini’s circular globalization claim presented by the media, the growth experienced by cities lead to a tangential globalization in which tech-nological and residential developments are created which indistinctly land on sao Paolo, miami or mexico City. Praised as the «new city model» and as the «biggest residential development of latin America», santa Fe rises on the western part of mexico City as a major high-profile corporative and residential enclave, nonetheless, within an autistic and excluding city model. Planned during the eighties to replace an area of shantytowns and garbage dumps, santa Fe represents an self-contained city that the rest of the urban fabric will not ever come to be.