‘Mexico City is different from all the other world capitals. In the last years it has had a great development, due to a series of both external and internal circumstances: foreign capital, industrial development, population increase, rural migration and so on. This great metropolitan area therefore presents a “new urban paradigm”. The exhibition narrates the story of this ancient city and describes how it developed to its present state; it also shows its present problems, its values, its inhabitants and architecture, its streets and its works of art.’