The aim of this work is to analyze urban development of Mexico City in its broader, macro-regional context which also describes the term megalopolis, and in its narrower, metropolitan sense. Without attempting to reach premature conclusions, we can say that a metropolis like Mexico City is exposed to processes typical of such cities: more and more extensive land use, changes in economic, social and demographic structures, etc. What is more, like other emerging or accelerating processes, also globalization had an important impact on cities, resulting in both positive and negative changes. This work is an attempt to identify and, if possible, to analyze some of these changes in Mexico City.
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Celem tej pracy jest analiza rozwoju miasta Meksyk tak w kontekście szerszym, makroregionalnym, jak i w węższym, metropolitalnym. Nie starając się formułować przedwczesnych wniosków, można powiedzieć, że zarówno metropolia, jak i megalopolia miasta Meksyk wystawione są na działanie procesów wspólnych dla tego typu miast: rozrost terytorialny, zmiany struktury ekonomicznej, społeczno-demograficznej itd. Musimy też dodać, że wystąpienie lub, jak chcą niektórzy, przyśpieszenie procesu globalizacji doprowadziło do pojawienia się nowych zjawisk. Jak zwykle nowe procesy stwarzają zarówno wyzwania, jak i szanse. Niniejsza praca jest próbą identyfikacji i, jeśli to możliwe, analizy tych wyzwań i szans, przed którymi stoi miasto Meksyk.
The Day of the Dead is a Mexican feast based on syncretism of Mezoamerican death rituals and Roman Catholic feasts of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days. This paper researches the infl uence and role of this feast in relation to the construction and negotiation of Mexican national identity, which is related to the concept of lo mexicano. The concept of lo mexicano is a product of nationalist efforts to create an image of Mexican nation and the essence of Mexican identity, which has been the object of various historical and political debates for a long time. It is also closely associated with the idea of death as a central symbol and specifi c feature of Mexican culture. Therefore, the Day of the Dead seems to be an important feast in sense of the image of what does it mean to be a Mexican. This image of the feast is more over supported by present Mexican nationalists by a nationalist state apparatus.
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