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In the recent expansion of studies on gentrification in Latin America, there seems to be a lack of discussion between different approaches and a hasty closure of the dispute between demand side and supply side explanations. The authors of this paper aim to contribute to the argument analyzing the production of consumers as part of the production of space. The aforementioned process entails an ideological work developed by diverse types of agents, leading to the creation of a symbolic rent gap. The discussion is illustrated with the case of two commercial areas in the center of Mexico City, which resulted from urban renewal of previously downgraded sectors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes the program offerings on broadcast television in Mexico City from its own content and from a structural perspective in three dimensions: socio-historical, economic and political, to reflect on their implications for the transition to democracy. In that sense realize the results of a socio-historical analysis of broadcast television in Mexico City, a review of communications policies in the Mexican television derived from the historical relationship between media-state and program offerings in open signal. The paper reports a high concentration in two major television companies and resulting in a very limited supply of content to the production of six stations, two with high prevalence and important guidance to the entertainment and fiction, one that reproduces the model above, and three of the so-called "public" with a marginal line, as the choice for the metropolitan audience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the notion of narrative identity related to the Historic Center of Mexico City. According to this category, identity is narratively constructed in an ongoing dialogue with culture, defined by Clifford Geertz as the ensemble of stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. A high number of events that have been incorporated to Mexico’s official history have had this area as their setting, especially the main square. The cultural policies directed in recent years towards the Historic Center of Mexico City provide an adequate case study for the notion of narrative identity applied to heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The primary interest of the present paper is to reflect about the transformations in modem society and their effect on the daily dynamics of the city and in the practices of the people who inhabit it. Our reflections are centered particularly on Mexico City and in the youths who live there. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article tries to open the reflection around the multiple possibilities that Communication Science offers to the study of the city. At a first moment, the author exposes the conceptual proposal of the Comunicology, and his first joints with the city. Later, the paper presents some of the main characteristics of the city and "the urban thing" as study objects, with special emphasis in the contributions of Communication Science, that impel the approach to the city like communication system and media construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines some of the most important contributions for the studies on communication and culture, of the academic debate on the reception and production of meaning between James Curran and David Morley. Its purpose is to suggest the relevance of taking some theoretical steps to approach fragments of the city from the point of view of individual experience. In this sense, the author plead for the continuous collaboration and interchange between social sciences, in terms of categories, common theories, concepts, etc. and for an hermeneutic-interpretative position, in order to lighten the fragment of life which is to be studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the history of institutionalized citizen participation in Mexico City. However, it doesn't attempt to make a thorough account of facts, mechanisms, instances and legal instruments which, dating from 1928 until the present day, preceded and characterized its building and formal development in this capital city. What this brief historical review particularly aims at, is at showing how was born a set of relations, practices and perceptions, that characterize a particular political culture, through the construction and functioning of "diverse" institutional modes along history. This current political culture is part of a symbolic universe that embodies traditions and customs that explain, to a very large extent, citizen participation's achievements and limitations within Mexico's capital city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]