However, as one approaches the home of a Russian Marxist, it feels fitting that colonial beauty should give way to the steel-barricaded utilitarianism of the Río Churubusco highway. The Trotsky House Museum, which now abuts a highway, feels somehow removed from the cobblestone streets, quaint Catholic churches, and ornate fountains of Coyoacán. Villa Coyoacán, Mexico, home to El Museo Casa de Leon Trotsky, is now a posh neighborhood in the south of Mexico City, but it was hardly more than a provincial town on the outskirts of the capital when Trotsky lived there, in 1939–40, before the mega-metropolis to the north subsumed it. This is the latest installment of Public Streets, a biweekly urban observations series curated by Ellis Avery.
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