The Water and the telephone.

Relations between the City Council and a private company in Mexico City, 1881-1911

Authors

  • Victor Cuchi Espada Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24275/EGBA1439

Keywords:

water , phone, Town Hall

Abstract

The news that the telephone could connect the offices with the residences to speed up the sending of orders, was one of the arguments used for the authorities of Mexico City to accept the installation of a telephone network, although this would lead to a conflict. with the foreign company responsible for carrying it out, since it was reluctant to do it according to the urban guidelines of the politicians of the capital, that is, to assemble it with underground tubes. The company's reasoning was based on the adverse humidity conditions of the lake basin in which the city was located. Here begins the story of two dissociations: that of a city built on a lagoon and that of a technology that is not viable due to humidity.

Author Biography

Victor Cuchi Espada, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ciudad de México

He is a Mexican historian, editor and author born in San Juan, Puerto Rico on October 6, 1962. His taste for literature and reading began very early thanks to the encyclopedias in the large bookcases in his home. Very outstanding readings were the Nueva Enciclopedia Temática y Mis primeros conocimientos. His first short works date from the days of the manual typewriter, of which only El paseo por el jardín survives. Later he wrote El retrato de Alexandr Mirolawski, La aventura de Alfredo Iriarte, La travesura Art Deco de los noventa, Vacaciones and finally Las tentaciones del cinismo. At the National School of Anthropology and History, he worked as part of the editing team for Cuicuilco magazine between 1991 and 1997. Since 1998, he has dedicated himself to historical research in the field of studies on the introduction of telephone service in the Mexico City during the Porfirio Díaz regime. Between 2012 and 2016 he worked on his first novel titled Berlín cincuenta y uno, and in 2019 he finished his second novel, El sacrificio de Urías.
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Published

2003-12-12

How to Cite

Cuchi Espada, V. (2003). The Water and the telephone. : Relations between the City Council and a private company in Mexico City, 1881-1911. ANUARIO DE ESPACIOS URBANOS, HISTORIA, CULTURA Y DISEÑO, (10), 35–47. https://doi.org/10.24275/EGBA1439

Issue

No. 10 (2003): Anuario de Espacios Urbanos, Historia, Cultura y Diseño

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DE LA HISTORIA

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