"Mexico City is the fifth largest city in the world and one of the few veritable megalopolises in the Americas. Established upon a lake in the 1400s as the seat of the Aztec Empire and later expanded and reinvented with the arrival of Spanish conquerors, the birth of the Republic, and several wars, invasions, and migratory waves in between, it has long been a source of endless fascination. It has also been and continues to be a meeting place for artists, intellectuals, and revolutionaries; religious pilgrims; and now, digital nomads. In Walking a Citys History, the acclaimed historian Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo presents readers with a unique portrait of a city long dear to him, presenting a vivid account of the thoughts and emotions it contains and unlocks. This book is a historically informed imaginative journey, an immersive tour through centuries of the citys rich history. Beginning in the 1400s and making its way to the present, it seeks to rescue spaces and moments that have been lost to time. What would Tenochtitlan have smelled like on the eve of the Spanish invasion? What did it look like as US troops overtook it in 1847? What would Maximilian I have seen from his hilltop castle during his short-lived empire? What traces, monuments, and grand design plans did the Revolution leave behind? Who remains in Frida Kahlos once trendy neighborhood of Coyoacan now that the bohemians are no longer there? These are just some of the questions that readers are given the chance to contemplate. Full of charm and erudition in equal measure, this book shows how one can do historical work just by traveling and walking, and it reveals the many layers of one of the worlds greatest cities"--.