Acknowledgments
My dissertation research was supported by multiple institutions and many people. I am deeply grateful to all the residents in Mexico City who shared their stories and perspectives with me through interviews, observations, and conversations, which allowed me to better understand Mexico City. At the start of my project, members of the 06600 Neighborhood group in colonia Juárez provided invaluable help in connecting me with residents. This project would also not have been possible without the help I received from government employees in Mexico City. I also received invaluable guidance and support from anthropologist Ana Lidia Domínguez Ruiz, urban studies and architecture scholar Jimena de Gortari, and multimedia scholar Karina Villaseñor, and many others in Mexico City.
During my time at the University of Pennsylvania, I received support for this project from the Sachs Program for Arts Innovation at Penn, the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn, the Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies, the Penn Museum, the Penn Humanities, Urbanism, and Design Initiative, the Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant, as well as the Music Department. In addition to this financial support, my project benefitted enormously from the feedback of my advisors, Timothy Rommen, Kristina Lyons, and committee members Ana Lidia Domínguez Ruiz and Jacqueline Avila.
Audio Credits
I recorded most of the audio in the tracks on this site during research trips to Mexico City. However, for a few clips, I used audio that available under Creative Commons licenses or in the public domain.
Tamales Oaxaqueños clip (tilllt, CC 3.0 License)
Scrap Metal Vendor (Felix Blume, Public Domain)