Apocalyptic writers would be surprised by the suddenness with which Mexico City, during the pandemic, took on the guise of a ghost town.

Alfonso Fierro
Alfonso Fierro is a PhD candidate in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at UC Berkeley. His dissertation project revolves around a series of urban utopias advanced by artists, architects, and writers of the Mexican postrevolutionary period (1920–50). Since 2018, he has been writing on urban thought, architecture, and Latin American urban cultures for the Mexican architecture magazine Arquine.