This article focuses on the origins of Mexico’s Federal District Planning Commission (1950–1953) and the consequences of its failure to implement a major urban renewal project in downtown Mexico City. In the 1950s, Mexico’s leading urbanists hoped to resolve the city’s severe traffic congestion through a new grid design and, in the process, transform it into a mecca for Mexican modernity. These efforts were thwarted by an independent coalition of residents and historic preservations in a movement that reflected the uneasy tensions between urban modernity and national patrimony in mid-century Mexico.

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墨西哥城历史中心的建设：城市更新时代的国家遗产

本文着重介绍墨西哥联邦地区计划委员会（1950–1953）的起源以及其未能在墨西哥市区实施大型城市更新项目的后果。在1950年代，墨西哥的主要城市主义者希望通过新的网格设计解决该城市的严重交通拥堵，并在此过程中将其转变为墨西哥现代性的圣地。这些努力受到居民的独立联盟和具有历史意义的保护的挫败，这一运动反映出在上世纪中期墨西哥城市现代性与国家遗产之间的紧张关系。