A visual celebration of the city with 40 vibrantly colored full-page plates, almost exclusively of street scenes, buildings and eye-popping advertisements. Charles Bowden provides an accompanying essay on the U.S.-Mexico border region. Those readers expecting a straight-forward travelogue will be disappointed but anyone with a love for color and politics and symbols and art will be intrigued. Published in cooperation with the University of Arizona Southwest Center.  (MEX128, $29.95)