Keywords
cultural values
cultural asset
conservation
Latin-American history
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Abstract
The history of Mexico City, always in construction, is plenty of archetypal moments allowing recognizing the passing of the generations who shaped it. Different typologies have developed in its urban structure enabling to understand the
processes of consolidation and transformation as well as growth and complexity. In occasions named by the travellers and explorers as The City of Palaces during the 20th century, it has an architectonic tradition of archetypal, monumental
and magnificent pieces reinforced by the movie theaters, which are the product of the technological evolution and referential objects of its urban and nocturnal, fully modern, world. These movie palaces in Mexico City got increasingly stronger and from the 1920s to the 1970s became a benchmark of the historic urban area, in the traditional neighborhoods as well as in the new urban expansions. An architecture for the performance, they contributed to shape the urban image by reinforcing a history that nowadays is slowly starting to fade away and, thus, a part of the city memory.
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