3. Almost 650 years after its founding, Mexico City is still growing in all directions, still in a state of ceaseless agitation, still a mixture of ideas and ideals. Streets are not regimented by a regular grid pattern but run wildly in all directions, impatiently switching their names every few blocks. Settlements that are suburbs one day are ingested by the city and become “colonias” the next.

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