This episode features MSU-Denver history professors David Yee, Monica Black, Matthew Mahr, and Jennifer Koshatka Seman, as well as history student Niko, all in conversation about David's book, Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City,1940-1976.

In Informal Metropolis: Life on the Edge of Mexico City,1940-1976, David Yee uncovers how this former lake bed grew into the world’s largest shantytown—Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl—and rethinks the relationship between urban space and inequality in twentieth-century Mexico. In doing so, Yee challenges many of the established narratives about this period in Mexico City (and Mexico broadly), showing how people used the government to create their own urban space.

David Yee is a history professor at MSU-Denver. David teaches classes in Latin American and Mexican history.

Reviews of Informal Metropolis:

https://online.ucpress.edu/msem/article-abstract/41/2/336/212492/Review-Informal-Metropolis-Life-on-the-Edge-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article-abstract/130/3/1289/8253144?redirectedFrom=fulltext#google_vignette