Mexico City: The Making of a Global City? (2002)

With a population of 17.9 million people in the year 2000, Mexico City ¹ is the third– largest urban agglomeration in the world, behind Tokyo and Bombay. This leads into thinking of it merely as a Third World megacity, which is a simplified picture, because beyond the large size, new dynamics of urbanization—related to economic globalization—may be at work. Though these new dynamics are far more easily seen in First World metropolises—they are also present in Third World cities.