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It’s tough to talk about a periphery without first talking about a center. I’m not planning to be too terribly strict with my definition of the “periphery” of the city over the course of my time in Mexico ...

Mexico City–I grew up in Los Angeles, a city of nearly four million that anchors an urban area that blankets much of Southern California and holds, depending on how it is measured, somewhere between 12 and 18 million people. More specifically, ...