Mexico City Sociology

For my urban sociology project, I decided to research Mexico City. Mexico City is located in the Valley of Mexico. When I was little I used to live in Mexico City but of course many things have changed now and it is becoming more urbanized everyday. I love Mexico and it has many beautiful things such as its culture, museums, its history, and many more things but as well it has its unfavorable factors. Mexico City is a metropolitan city considered urban as well, with a population of 21.2 million inhabitants. The Aztecs founded Mexico City in 1325 . The Aztecs were the first inhabitants in the city before Hernan Cortez who conquered the city. Mexico City was first named Tenochtitlan and was renamed “La ciudad de Mexico” because, the Spanish found
It was built on an island name Texcoco. Mexico’s city municipality, was established in 1524 as Tenochtitlan. In 1585 it had already become “La ciudad de Mexico” or Mexico City. When Hernan Cortez conquered Mexico, it became their empire. They now had their own city for administrative, political and even financial centers. The federal district was not created until 1824 after the independence of Spain. On September 16, 1810 the Mexican war of independence begun. In 1876 Porfirio Diaz became president and that was when Mexico experienced a huge transformation. The inhabitants of Mexico City where primarily the Aztecs and the Spanish which made a mix of European and Indian descendants called Creole and
It is considered a global city consisting of sixteen boroughs. As we read in the book, urbanization is a process and has many different levels starting with a metropolitan area and going through several stages including global cities. I think that urbanization is a process and many times it is something that happens and people expand upon it , but was not planned. Urbanization has many sub categories that make it what it is such as demographics, economic characteristics, functional nature, etc. Mexico City is well known for being the largest metropolitan area in the western hemisphere as well as the largest Spanish-speaking city in the world. As I said before, Mexico City is becoming more urban but as in now, about one fifth of the people live in the metropolitan area. Most of its inhabitants still include European and Indian descendants. Similar to other metropolitan areas, Mexico city’s neighborhoods range from extreme poverty with residents who live in houses with no water or electricity to very fancy and luxurious neighborhoods. As the city continuous to grow, wealthy citizens have moved west and have built residential neighborhoods in Polanco, Lomas de Chapultepec and Bosques de las Lomas. Mexico’s City’s downtown area is defined by its Zocalo, a open central plaza that is surrounded by the Cathedral of Mexico, the National