ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how a surveillance and supervision model designed to ensure social order is established through vertical building design. It examines how this model produces tensions and conflicts with the horizontal processes associated with expressions of life that create movement both in the architectural ensemble and in its vicinity. The chapter argues that the order and conflict dynamics apparent in the architecture of Reforma 222 crystallize the tensions of the Mexico City securitization project. The Reforma 222 building is a skyscraper that gives Mexico City a specific urban image that is a projection of the ideal life of the financial elite and city policies. The chapter considers how the dynamics of order and conflict in the architectural group encapsulate the tensions of the Mexico City securitization project. It discusses the management of public 'private' spaces through the establishment of various surveillance techniques.
