EXHIBITION

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The urban planning policies implemented by the post-revolutionary Mexican governments between 1920 and 1940 reflected the efforts of a new political-social pact for the growth of the national economy. Unable to sustain the infrastructure development programs of a city that quadrupled its population in a span of two decades, government urban plans fell apart under the speculation and increasing power of real estate developers, triggering a fragmentation of the city that is still reflected in our city imaginary. 

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"Industrial: Traces of Post-revolutionary Speculation" runs through the peripheral belt of working-class housing that appeared in the 1930s as a consequence of the settlements of industrial zones in Mexico City. Through narratives, architectural typologies, propagandistic systems, photographs, real estate and urban models, drawings and documents, the exhibition confronts questions about real estate speculation, industrial production and domesticity within the legacy of modernity that defined the first half of the century, upending the historical relationship between production and consumption, state and private development, the rural and the urban. The relevance of speculative discourse in the formation of the city and the modern social language that accompanied the industrial development, explain the image on which the traces of our city are currently drawn. 

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