The blogger behind Candyland, an informed view on architecture, recently returned home to Mexico City after more than a year in Barcelona and, well, he doesn't like what he sees:
i forgot what a monster the city is. a constant soft collapse. a wide, circular wreck. half-finished, permanent urban adolescence. [...] it is so strange and exhausting and infuriating to sense the state pseudourbanity and pseudourbanism in the city. not only is the physical quality of our city grade c, but the overall quality of urban production is absolutely lame, taken buy architectural aristocramediocrity, jerk-off politics and fat rich entrepreneurial rogues.
That sounds awful, and therefore ... fantastic! Read more at Candyland. Meanwhile, VivirLatino has updates on the latest urban nuisance in D.F., bomb threats. And The Mex Files updates us on the mysterious death of an American priest in old Colonia San Rafael.
* Image above by Candyland.