Zona Rosa, Mexico City
Bohemian quarter turned red-light zone turned nightlife, LGBT and Korean cultural hub.
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This guide to Zona Rosa in Mexico City traces the neighborhood from its start as a playground for the wealthy, named half-jokingly the pink zone by painter Jose Luis Cuevas in the 1960s, through the 1985 earthquake and the economic crash that followed, which drove out its galleries and bookstores. You'll hear how a march of three hundred people in 1978 grew into tens of thousands by 2003, and what moved into the empty storefronts left behind in between. It's a neighborhood built for European elites that ended up shaped by everyone the crash pushed out.
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