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'''Lomas de Chapultepec''' ({{lang-en|"Chapultepec Hills"}}) is a ''[[Colonia (Mexico)|colonia]]'', or officially recognized neighborhood, located in the [[Miguel Hidalgo, D.F.|Miguel Hidalgo borough]] of [[Mexico City]]. It dates back to the 1920s, when it was founded with the name Chapultepec Heights. Home to some of the biggest mansions in the city
==History==
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In the early 1920s, Mexico City suffered a housing shortage as a result of internal migrants fleeing from uncertainty in the provinces caused by the [[Mexican Revolution]].<ref name="UNAM">{{cite web |url=http://www.economia.unam.mx/amhe/memoria/mesat4/Maria%20del%20Carmen%20COLLADO.pdf |title=Intereses citadinos y negocios inmobiliarios en la ciudad de México durante la década de 1920 |publisher=UNAM |access-date=November 11, 2014}}</ref> To meet demand, the [[Ayuntamiento]]s of the [[Distrito Federal (Mexico)|Distrito Federal]] passed various city ordinances in order to make it easier for private investors to develop urban subdivisions.<ref name="UNAM"/> Also beneficial was Article 27 of the [[Constitution of Mexico|1917 Constitution]], which was used to promote [[Land reform in Mexico|agrarian land reform]] and indirectly encouraged the construction and emergence of new urban developments when it prompted the change of [[land-use]] of the properties surrounding the capital.<ref name="UNAM"/> A total of 26 to 32 colonias were built as a direct result, one of which was Lomas de Chapultepec.<ref name="UNAM"/>
On September 28, 1921, the corporation, Chapultepec Heights Company, was formed with the objective of developing the land acquired from the ''Hacienda de los Morales'' (also known as ''Rancho del Huizachal de Alberto Cuevas Lascuráin'').<ref name="UNAM"/> The company was founded by five investors (two [[American Mexicans|Americans]], two Mexicans and one [[British Mexicans|Briton]]) who were able to buy the 687 hectares of the ex-[[Hacienda]] for about one cent per square meter.<ref name="UNAM"/>
In 1922, Chapultepec Heights was planned by [[José Luis Cuevas Pietrasanta]] in the "[[Garden city movement|Garden City]]" fashion.<ref name="Brantz">{{cite book |author=Dorothee Brantz |author2=Sonja Dümpelmann |title=Greening the City: Urban Landscapes in the Twentieth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JFvbX6qeqykC&q=José+Luis+Cuevas+Chapultepec+Heights |date=1 July 2011 |publisher=University of Virginia Press |isbn=978-0-8139-3138-8 |page=41}}</ref> With large lots, large gardened yards, wide winding streets, gardened boulevards and scattered small shopping areas within walking distances from homes. The early settlers attracted to the area were young professionals and some of the nouveau riche revolutionaries, bureaucrats and the new business class of Mexico City. Smaller homes were built on the side streets while mostly large houses were built on Paseo de la Reforma and [[Paseo de Las Palmas]], the two main avenues.
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===Use of "Lomas" in subsequent developments===
Starting in the early 1950s,
Today, the area encompassing Lomas de Chapultepec and neighboring developments is sometimes incorrectly referred to as simply ''Las Lomas'', though locals specify which neighborhood they live in, be it Tecamachalco, Herradura, etc.
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