Urban Decay in Mexico City

dtoronto · #1 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 12:22 AM**

Images from Google Streetview

montréaliste · #2 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 3:06 AM**

Is anyone of these Carlos Slim's compound?

photoLith · #3 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 3:08 AM**

Wow, and I thought north St. Louis was bad. Thats crazy and sad.

ColDayMan · #4 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 4:19 AM**

An amazing ride.

Boroda · #5 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 7:05 AM**

Nice slums!

Yankee · #6 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 10:39 AM**

Aren't urban decay and Mexico City the same thing?

Just kidding of course. Well, this is bad, but not shockingly bad for the worst neighborhoods of a developing nation's city.

LSyd · #7 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 11:30 AM**

some of these remind me of Iraq

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Expat · #8 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 12:24 PM**

Interesting to be taken places that I am not likely to see.

Crawford · #9 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 12:57 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by montréaliste

Is anyone of these Carlos Slim's compound?

Carlos Slim's Mexico City house is surprisingly modest. It's quite old and anonymous-looking.

He has other houses in the U.S. and Mexico though, including a $50 million mansion in NYC and a lakeside compound outside of Mexico City.

One thing that's odd about these pics is the garbage. These all look like "typical" slum areas of Mexico City, and I have been to lots of neighborhoods like this, but I don't recall the garbage everywhere.

Mexico City, regardless of neighborhood type, tends to be surprisingly clean. Folks don't litter too much.

Crawford · #10 Posted **Apr 28, 2011, 1:02 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yankee

Aren't urban decay and Mexico City the same thing?

Just kidding of course. Well, this is bad, but not shockingly bad for the worst neighborhoods of a developing nation's city.

Keep in mind that Mexico City is a fairly developed, higher-income city. It's the wealthiest city in Latin America, and a few city districts (roughly equivalent to NYC boroughs) have incomes approaching U.S./European standards.

But Mexico City also has terrible inequality, and vast slums, of course.

Keep-SA-Lame · #11 Posted **May 9, 2011, 8:11 PM**

Maybe those trash piles were caused by the flooding a few years ago? There didnt seem to be any trash in areas that were on hillsides.

Ex-Ithacan · #12 Posted **May 9, 2011, 9:51 PM**

Love this pic: mountains surrounded by endless city, a couple of nice vehicles in front of crazy little houses on a strangely paved curved street.......

I love it.

Thanks.

llamaorama · #13 Posted **May 10, 2011, 7:50 AM**

I guess when its trash day in a place like this, the guys in their pickup truck who haul garbage just don't give a shit and dump it on a street corner? Also it could have been a bunch of bags that were torn into by scavengers or something.

harryc · #14 Posted **May 10, 2011, 10:21 AM**

Wow - thorugh Google Street view - my horizons have been expanded.

javalvo · #15 Posted **Jun 23, 2011, 6:02 AM**

nice.