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Article: Pollution, crime, earthquakes: so what?
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 21, 1995
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright 1995 The Independent - London. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Mexico City is a city of squiffy buildings. But if you plant a
metropolis of some 20 million people on a huge bowl of jelly, the
bed of Lake Texcoco, and throw in the San Andreas fault for good
measure, you can hardly expect perfect lines. I arrived burdened
with misconceptions: that the city was largely levelled by the 1985
earthquake, and that the air was like rarefied minestrone soup.
True, the government has counselled its citizens not to take
outdoor exercise, but the air seems no worse than in London and the
city has a remarkably intact historic centre.
Its heart is the main plaza, the Zocalo. This is flanked by the
colonial Baroque facade of the Palacio Nacional and dominated by
the ...
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