Tlatelolco, Mexico, North America
Year 1965 latitude: 19° 27' longitude: -99° 8' Period Initiator(s) Planning organization Nationality initiator(s) Designer(s) / Architect(s) Mario Pani Design organization Inhabitants Target population 100,000 Town website Town related links http://www.alvaraalto.fi/conferences/universal/finalpapers/raquelfranklin.h tm Literature - Clive B. Smith, Builders in the Sun: Five Mexican Architects, Architectural Book Publishing, NY 1967 type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
source: (wiki) Unidad Habitacional Nonoalco-Tlatelolco, 1965, near central Mexico City, is Mario Pani's largest and most ambitious public housing project, representing modern urbanism at best in Mexico. With 100,000 people in 101 buildings ranging from four to 22 storeys, it was intended to be a self-contained city facilitating parks, clinics, schools, parking, sports, recreation, entertainment, socializing and shopping amenities. Its 11,916 apartments contain from one to three bedrooms. source: Clive B. Smith, Builders in the Sun: Five Mexican Architects, Architectural Book Publishing, NY 1967
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