![]() ![]() These two simple statements sparked comments from users who took the analysis as a mockery, claiming that they belonged to the "subway class", others replied that they did not agree with the statement about the price of certain garments, as some of them are sold for up to a thousand pesos each. Second, "it has good quality clothes at an acceptable price". First, he assured that the store is aimed at a lower-class public. ![]() It only took two arguments to unleash the controversy surrounding Suburbia's business model. Whether or not the influencer's commentary is accurate or not, it puts these curious data profiles in the spotlight, which far from providing certainty about little-known information on various business models, generate controversy and most importantly, establishes activities that are challenges before which increasingly audacious goals must be met in the market. ![]() A specialist in curious facts has made inaccurate arguments, to refer to stores like Suburbia and Liverpool, however, what has caught the attention is how he qualifies stores, assuring that they are aimed at a low-income segment. The case that has given millions of reproductions to in his argument within TikTok, which is added to other cases of stigma in retail, where we have witnessed how criticisms are launched against certain personalities, for going to an Apple Store, which is still in Mexico, highly questionable act, patenting a classist consumer culture, among other defects that are exhibited with this mentality described in networks. Text adapted from the Introduction by Karen Irvine, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.Assuring that Suburbia is a clothing store aimed at lower class consumers, has been the most controversial assessment made against this store in social networks and the interesting thing about it is the stigma that is patented in retail. Understanding that overdevelopment is not just a local problem, he works hard as an artist to share his photographs as one clear plea for responsible, sustainable development in a rapidly changing world. He lives in downtown Monterrey, and he cares deeply about its land, its people, and its future. Ultimately Cartagena documents the chaos and destruction that result from scant or misguided urban planning. Only the landscape appears capable of limiting their proliferation, the mountains and rivers the only forces able to contain their sprawl. He takes pictures of dried-up river beds that attest to the water misallocation and depletion brought about by the construction, and he depicts perpetual rows of tiny houses slicing directly into the foothills of the picturesque mountains that surround Monterrey. Over the years, various governmental policies resulted in new, decentralized cities with limited infrastructures where the pursuit of immediate financial gain trumped any interest in sustainability.Cartagena captures both the destruction that rapid urbanization has imposed on the landscape and the phenomenon of densely packed housing. In Suburbia Mexicana Alejandro Cartagena photographs the particularities of the suburbs of Monterrey, Mexico which are relatively new and often hastily built, reflecting a general disregard for planning. Published by Photolucida and Daylight Books 2010 Suburbia Mexicana Book by Alejandro Cartagena. a guide to infrastructure and corruption. ![]()
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