Enjoying nature in Mexico City’s Ajusco (0)
3/08/10 •
If you’ve ever flown into Mexico City and stared out the windows as the plane comes in, you were probably amazed at what seems to be a city that goes on forever.
There are buildings as far as the eye can see and more than a few skyscrapers thrown in for good measure. As we come [...]
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Argument #2 for formalizing Mexico’s Street Vendors (0)
3/06/10 •
Locally spent money works better than global corporations would have you believe.
I’m becoming a raging activist, but check out this post at Small Mart (which I found via Corrente). My last argument was for increased tax revenue, here, but come on, this is so simple even an economics ignoramus like myself can see it. This [...]
Preview Photos of Magdalena Contreras (0)
3/06/10 •
Fortunately, the Delegation Magdalena Contreras is one that I actually know – at least a little bit better than a lot of others in the south. Tlalpan, Milpa Alta and Tlahuac seem farther away than Morelos. But old Magdalena somehow seems like she is still in the thick of Mexico City. We finished up our [...]
How cool Cuajimalpa! (0)
3/03/10 •
We’re still the best way to see Santa Fe. But Cuajimalpa is another 30 or so colonias and a couple of pueblos to the south- with a big basically empty tail – that includes the enormous Desierto de los Leones national park. Along with the part of the park in bordering delegation, Alvaro Obregon, Desierto de los Leones accounts for a full 15% of the entire Distrito Federal. Now that’s “Urban Wasteland!”
Who’s creating US Jobs? (0)
3/02/10 •
The going rate for Americans to be entrepreneurs, it would seem, is more like 1.5 million dollars. And that certainly couldn’t be invested in a small business. Though small businesses are, in the US version of economics, part of the formal economy (see this morning’s rant), small businesses are sort of the US version of Ambulantes. They get fewer tax breaks, and really, they’re not even particularly prestigious. Owning the little corner store is tantamount to being, well, Mexican! Right?
Informal Street Sellers increase 150% in 10 years (2)
3/02/10 •
La Jornada reported this morning that the total number of “informal” street vendors has increased by 150% over the last ten years in Mexico City.
The lack of employment opportunities, continuing staff turnover and low incomes have meant that more people have received their main source of income on the street – whether they [...]
Bringing the Kosher Language of New York Finance to Mexico City (0)
2/27/10 •
This is what people end up studying at EXPEnglish. Because our courses are custom designed for students and because so many of the Finance people are talking to – or trying to talk to – New York – we end up trying to understand some of the news that is streaming endlessly from that part [...]
Victorian Elegance in Azcapotzalco (0)
2/25/10 •
Formerly a simple street linking the two places, the avenue was equipped with electricity and trams during the Diaz presidency. And as one the 19th Century’s weekend destinations, the street saw a small residential construction boom, but with a feature that makes it unique (to my knowledge) around Mexico City: the “houses” were built in an unusual “Victorian” style.
Monarch Butterfly tours in Michoacan, Mexico (1)
2/23/10 •
You can visit the most exiting part of the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary as part of a quick weekend trip from Mexico City. As I’ve mentioned a few times, we’re putting together some amazing outings in and around Mexico City and some of the best surrounding areas. The tour to Michoacan, at about 4 hours from Mexico City, includes a fun day trip or with an overnight stay in a cottage very near to the Butterfly Zone. We’ll be driving parties of just 4 to 8 over the weekends from Mexico City and would be happy to have you on board.
Green Slum of Mine (0)
2/20/10 •
“The city is the most environmentally benign form of human settlement. Each city dweller consumes less land, less energy, less water, and produces less pollution than his counterpart in settlements of lower densities.”
-Peter Cathorpe, quoted in Prospect Magazine
In one of my past lives I was hawking supposedly environmentally friendly [...]
Neza Has Secretly Made Me Happy (1)
2/18/10 •
When I mention Neza I can easily say many words related to it that I am sure other people would immediately understand. Words like “naco,” poverty, gangs, ugliness, rudeness, over-populated, unsophisticated, uncivilized, guns, horses in the middle of the street, pigs and chickens on the roofs, overgrown houses, lots of markets and no green areas. Some of them are true, some of them are false.
A clear day in the east (photos) (1)
2/15/10 •
Maybe it’s obvious, I have a special consideration for some of the neighborhoods in the east of the city.
The most working class, and some of the roughest places, are also where on a clear day the mountains become the most striking.
Yesterday was spectacular almost everywhere in the city, so a quick hop up to the [...]
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