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"The photographic volume 'A Small Guide to Homeownership' is an amalgamation of thirteen years of work by Alejandro CARTAGENA, starting with his 'Fragmented Cities' series made between 2005 and 2009 in which he documented the suburbanization of the Monterrey metro area in northern Mexico.
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The project by Mexican photographer Alejandro CARTAGENA began an exploration that led him to document the changes that this development brought to the city; from transportation, urban planning, infrastructure development, private and public bureaucracy, the challenges in people’s daily life to the ecological consequences of this unplanned growth." (© The Velvet Cell, 2020)