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When taking into consideration the border separating the United States from Mexico, what typically comes to mind can be an unwelcoming zone with violent, poverty-ridden towns, cities, and maquiladoras on one side and an extremely militarized network of barriers and monitoring systems on the other. It had been not necessarily this way. In fact, from the finish of Mexican-American War until the overdue twentieth hundred years, the boundary was a very porous and loosely controlled region. In this sweeping bill of life within the United States-Mexican boundary zone, acclaimed urbanist and geographer Michael Dear traces the border's long record of cultural interaction, from exchanges between the region's numerous Mesoamerican tribes onwards. Once Mexican and American settlers met at the Rio Grande and the southwest in the nineteenth hundred years, new types of interaction changed. But as Dear warns in his bracing analysis, this vibrant zone of ethnic and public amalgamation is at risk of fading away because of highly restrictive American regulations and the violence along Mexico's area of the boundary. As he talks about through analyses of the U.S. boundary security organic and the growing Mexican narco-state, the very lifetime of the "third land" occupied by both Us citizens and Mexicans is under serious threat. But through some evocative portraits of modern border neighborhoods, he shows that the potential for revitalizing this in-between land still remains. Combining a broad historical perspective and a commanding summary of present-day problems, Why Wall surfaces Won't Work signifies a major intellectual foray into one of the most hotly contested political issues of the era.
