Exuberant Art and Cable Car Can Lift a Poor, Violent Place Only So High
MEXICO CITY — Observed from a soaring cable car, the city is a sea of concrete stretching to the horizon, ruptured only by clusters of skyscrapers and the remains of ancient volcanoes. Some 60 feet below is the borough of Iztapalapa, a warren of winding streets and alleyways, its cinder block houses encasing the neighborhood’s hills in insipid gray.But then, on a rooftop, a sudden burst of color: a giant […]