{"product_id":"first-stop-in-the-new-world-mexico-city-the-capital-of-the-21st-century-9781594483783","title":"First Stop in the New World: Mexico City, the Capital of the 21st Century","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFirst Stop in the New World\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Riverhead Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781594483783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.28h x 5.46w x 0.79d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/02\/2009 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"David Lida","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096227512501,"sku":"9781594483783","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_98ab10e1-6a94-47d8-b66a-173fd2119838.jpg?v=1692803945","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/first-stop-in-the-new-world-mexico-city-the-capital-of-the-21st-century-9781594483783","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}