Hotel de México
Departing from Mexico City’s Benito Juárez airport becomes a stunning exercise in the optics of saturation. Unlike many more predictable urban departures, there is no quick cut away from a traffic-embroiled grid, no shocking glimpse of urban borders and geography, no single moment when the shape of a city becomes clear as a map: the slipper of Manhattan, the ragged sprawl of Houston, the tempting coasts of Miami.For