Special lectures Mexico City deep eastern drainage tunnel

2012 ◽  
pp. 21-38 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Drainage Tunnel

scholarly journals Risks involved in vertical shafts construction for the eastern drainage tunnel in Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Jiménez Arguelles ◽  
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Luis Rocha Chiu ◽  
Aurora Poó Rubio ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Soil Type ◽  
Large Diameter ◽  
Vertical Wells ◽  
Drainage Tunnel ◽  
Different Types

This article describes the main stages involved in the construction of the vertical shafts (large-diameter vertical wells), which are necessary for the subsequent construction of the tunnel´s sections. The different risk situations existing during the construction of the Eastern Drainage Tunnel in the valley of Mexico City (in Spanish, "Tunel Emisor Oriente") are analyzed. In order for this 52 km-long and 7.5 m-wide tunnel to carry part of the city’s sewage, 25 shafts must first be built, ranging from 55 to 150 meters deep. The magnitude of such a project implies working in different geographical areas and varied geological strata involving the presence of groundwater, which increases the risks due to possible landslides or flooding during excavation. As digging will occur in different types of soil, varying procedures must be used depending on soil type. Likewise, due to the magnitude of this kind of project, detailed scheduling and planning are required as simultaneous works on different fronts are necessary to meet deadlines. The study mentions that, while projects like these involve high risks for workers, analysis of activities and situations are conducted precisely to demonstrate that such risks can be considerably reduced.

Mexico City deep eastern drainage tunnel

2012 ◽  
pp. 3-20
Author(s):  
M Aguilar-Téllez ◽  
R Méndez-Marroquin ◽  
J Rangel-Núñez ◽  
M Comulada-Simpson ◽  
U Maidl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Drainage Tunnel

Migrant Diplomacies: Rethinking Diplomacy Beyond State-Centric Perspectives. A Civic Bi-Nationality Experience from North America

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Alejo
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Contemporary Politics ◽  
Migrant Activism ◽  
Point Of Departure

There is a pressing need to extend our thinking about diplomacy beyond state-centric perspectives, as in the name of sovereignty and national interests, people on move are confronting virtual, symbolic and/or material walls and frames of policies inhibiting their free movement. My point of departure is to explore migrant activism and global politics through the transformation of diplomacy in a globalised world. Developing an interdisciplinary dialogue between new diplomacy and sociology, I evidence the emergence of global sociopolitical formations created through civic bi-nationality organisations. Focusing on the agent in interaction with structures, I present a theoretical framework and strategy for analysing the practices of migrant diplomacies as an expression of contemporary politics. A case study from North America regarding returned families in Mexico City provides evidence of how these alternative diplomacies are operating.

Curb Cuts: Crip Displacements and El Edificio de Enfrente

Somatechnics ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 198-215
Author(s):  
Robert McRuer
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Poor People ◽  
Spatial Politics ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
Good Will ◽  
British Embassy ◽  
The Uk

Theorists of neoliberalism have placed dispossession and displacement at the centre of their analyses of the workings of contemporary global capitalism. Disability, however, has not figured centrally into these analyses. This essay attends to what might be comprehended as the crip echoes generated by dispossession, displacement, and a global austerity politics. Centring on British-Mexican relations during a moment of austerity in the UK and gentrification in Mexico City, the essay identifies both the voices of disability that are recognized by and made useful for neoliberalism as well as those shut down or displaced by this dominant economic and cultural system. The spatial politics of austerity in the UK have generated a range of punishing, anti-disabled policies such as the so-called ‘Bedroom Tax.’ The essay critiques such policies (and spatial politics) by particularly focusing on two events from 2013: a British embassy good will event exporting British access to Mexico City and an installation of photographs by Livia Radwanski. Radwanski's photos of the redevelopment of a Mexico City neighbourhood (and the displacement of poor people living in the neighbourhood) are examined in order to attend to the ways in which disability might productively haunt an age of austerity, dispossession, and displacement.

Capital californiano, necesidad presupuestal y cambio político: Juan Temple y el arrendamiento de la Casa de Moneda de México, 1827–1857

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 327-351
Author(s):  
Omar Velasco Herrera
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Las Casas ◽  
Siglo Xix ◽  
The Government

Durante la primera mitad del siglo xix, las necesidades presupuestales del erario mexicano obligaron al gobierno a recurrir al endeudamiento y al arrendamiento de algunas de las casas de moneda más importantes del país. Este artículo examina las condiciones políticas y económicas que hicieron posible el relevo del capital británico por el estadounidense—en estricto sentido, californiano—como arrendatario de la Casa de Moneda de México en 1857. Asimismo, explora el desarrollo empresarial de Juan Temple para explicar la coyuntura política que hizo posible su llegada, y la de sus descendientes, a la administración de la ceca de la capital mexicana. During the first half of the nineteenth century, the budgetary needs of the Mexican treasury forced the government to resort to borrowing and leasing some of the most important mints in the country. This article examines the political and economic conditions that allowed for the replacement of British capital by United States capital—specifically, Californian—as the lessee of the Mexican National Mint in 1857. It also explores the development of Juan Temple’s entrepreneurship to explain the political circumstances that facilitated his admission, and that of his descendants, into the administration of the National Mint in Mexico City.

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