Abstract

The territorial impact of globalization materializes with the construction of large urban projects, which serve as contact points within cities related to the circuits of capital. By means of a Gramscian approach we use Santa Fe — a megaproject in the western part of Mexico City — as a case study of a corporative development project inscribed in global hegemonic flows. Building upon the concept of global devices to designate such projects, they become the urban space link to global capital. However, such devices operate at a different speed than the rest of the city, as instrument of a vertical economic power in the midst of a distant, impoverished and unrelated to global flows horizontality.

Bio

Alfonso 
Valenzuela-Aguilera
 (ICS-UL/ Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos) CV HERE


Nota: Activity within the research group Cities, Cultures, and Architecture (CCArq) (CCArq)