Mexico
October, 1968
Mexico city is a world apart, a world unto itself. Never mind that the map locates it on the North American continent: the rules that govern the progression of daily urban life elsewhere simply do not apply to this huge and exuberant metropolis. Other cities lend themselves to generalities--they are sophisticated, brash, aloof or warm: but the capital of Mexico refuses to take a label, for it is all these and more. Like its electric power supply, which ebbs and flows with an irregularity that su...
