With the realization of a public project for the creation of the Abelardo L. Rodríguez market, the Mexican government took a step forward towards social programs under a post revolutionary look of equality and social justice, but also as an example of how new public works projects should be built.
This transformation of Mexico into a modern country during the first decades of the twentieth century, The creation of urban projects and the increase in public works played a very important role Not only in changing the way in which cities looked, but how they were lived by their inhabitants.
The historic center of Mexico City, although it seems like a timeless mass that has never changed, has very marked moments of these transformations. They sought not only their material revitalization, but Its continuity as a neighborhood that is lived beyond its multiple shopsGovernment or Churches.
Located in the heart of the Historic Center, the Abelardo L. Rodríguez market was born as an educational institution, an example for subsequent public works projects.Casasola Archive, National Photo Library, INAH.
A post -revolutionary architecture
At the end of the 19th century and still under the government of Porfirio Díaz, Mexico City was modernized with urban projects that mainly included the creation of new residential blocks Organized under a consciousness of habitability of space coming above all, from the changes that the Baron of Haussmann had promoted in Paris during the Empire of Napoleon III.
With the arrival of new colonies such as San Rafael, Santa María la Ribera or Juarez, the image of the city changed radically and in those new settlements all the services that its neighbors could require were arranged and for which it was not necessary to travel – literally – to the center to consume. Churches, parks, schools and markets were planned as part of the program of each of these new colonies. The Diaz government then implemented the creation of markets that, although they have modified in its architecture, continue to be emblems of the city and other states such as the Tlalpan market, that of La Merced or El Hidalgo in Guanajuato.