First Stop in the New World

The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant seductive and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world and a vision of our urban future.. First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of life in a city defined by pleasure and danger ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.