First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century

The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.

First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 06/02/2009
ISBN: 9781594483783
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.28h x 5.46w x 0.79d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 08/02/2009 pg. 20