Birnin Mexico ya kasance yana da tsayin daka a lokacin mulkin mallaka, amma a ƙarshen sa bayyanar sabbin hanyoyi, kamar Paseo de Bucareli (1778), zai haifar da haɓakar babban birnin nan gaba zuwa kudu maso yamma.
Daga baya, a lokacin da Maximiliano ya fadi kasada, wata hanyar karkara, da aka sani da Paseo de la Reforma a nasarar Jamhuriyar, zai haɗu da inda Bucareli ya fara da Bosque de Chapultepec. A mahaɗar waɗannan hanyoyin da na yanzu a cikin Juárez, an sassaka gunkin El Caballito na dogon lokaci.
Wereungiyoyin farko na birni an kafa su tare da waɗannan magunan, ci gaban su ya yi sama yayin da rabi na biyu na ƙarni na 19 ya ci gaba, lokacin da lokacin kwanciyar hankali da ci gaban tattalin arziki suka fara. Wadannan sabbin unguwannin za a kira su "mulkin mallaka" daga nan, kuma ba daidaituwa ba ne wasu daga cikinsu suka ambaci sunan Paseo de la Reforma da sunan su, kamar unguwannin Paseo da Nueva del Paseo, daga baya yankin na Juárez ya mamaye su, kazalika wani ɓangare na tsohuwar unguwar La Teja, wanda yake a bangarorin biyu na hanyar: ɓangaren kudu ya haɗu da Juárez kuma arewa ta haɗu da mafi yawan yankunan Cuauhtémoc na yanzu.
An rarraba sauran yankuna a cikin wannan yanki, kamar Tabacalera da San Rafael, an ɗora kan mafi tsufa, Colonia de los Arquitectos. Dukansu suna da fasali iri ɗaya: tsarin birni ya fi na tsohon birni mulkin mallaka, tare da shimfida titunan tituna sau da yawa, suna kwaikwayon sabbin biranen biranen a Turai da Amurka. Ba kwatsam ba ne iyalai masu arziki suka fara barin Cibiyar kuma, tare da mashahurin mai arziki na Porfiriato, sun kafa kyawawan fadoji tare da Paseo de la Reforma da sauran tituna cikin tsananin buƙata a lokacin, kamar su London, Hamburg. , Nice, Florence da Genoa, wadanda sunayensu ya nuna alamar halayyar gine-ginen da ta taso a cikinsu, kuma hakan ba da jimawa ba ya sauya fasalin garin Mexico City. Marubutan tarihi na lokacin basu daina ambaton cewa suna kama da titunan wasu sabbin unguwa a cikin wani gari na Turai. Gidajen sun karɓi nau'ikan da Makarantar Fine Arts ta keɓe a Paris, wanda shine samfurin Makarantarmu ta San Carlos. Ba su da farfajiyoyi, kamar gidajen mulkin mallaka, amma lambuna a gaba ko gefuna, kuma kayan adon sun sake fasalin waɗanda ke cikin gine-ginen gargajiya, sun haɗa da ɗakuna masu kyan gani, zane-zane, balustrades, tagogin gilashi masu launuka, mansards (don babu ruwan dusar ƙanƙara) da kuma dormers.
A farkon karni na 20, wasu jijiyoyi, kamar su Insurgentes, sun shiga cikin rukunin gatari wanda ya ba da damar ƙirƙirar sabbin yankuna, kamar Roma da La Condesa, a cikin shekarun farko na sabon karnin. Na farko an yi shi ne a cikin sifa da surar Juárez, wanda yake kusa da shi sosai, tare da ƙananan wuraren shakatawa kamar Rio de Janeiro da Ajusco, da kuma titunan bishiyoyi masu karimci kamar Jalisco (a halin yanzu Álvaro Obregón). La Condesa ya haɓaka nan gaba kadan, iyakantacce ne ta tsohuwar hanyar Tacubaya, wacce ta ƙare a ƙarshen Paseo de la Reforma.
Unguwan Hipódromo, wanda ya ɗauki sunan daga filin wasan da yake a wannan wurin na ɗan lokaci, yana bin Condesa kuma a tsakanin su suna ba da tarin ban sha'awa na Art Deco da gine-ginen aikin (wannan ma a cikin Cuauhtémoc). Ba tare da wata shakka ba, gine-ginen da ke kewaye da kyakkyawan Parque México, ko kuma waɗanda ke kan titin oval na Amsterdam, a cikin Hipódromo, sun kasance ɗayan ɗayan biranen birni waɗanda aka fi so. A cikin Countess da Hippodrome babu gidan mai iyali guda ɗaya kawai, kamar yadda yake a cikin yankuna na baya, amma kuma ginin gidan yana bayyana, wanda shine ɓangaren kayan aikin sa da salon sa.
Paseo de la Reforma da yankunan da aka ambata a baya sun kasance a wani bangare na iyakokin garin, kuma ba makawa cewa fadada shi zai bar su a tsakiya, wanda tsoffin gine-ginensu suka rasa dalilin kasancewarsu: a cikin Paseo an maye gurbin manyan gidaje masu hawa daya zuwa biyu da hasumiyoyin ofis; a Juárez da Roma gidajen yanzu suna da gidajen abinci da shaguna, kodayake mutane da yawa sun ba da sababbin gine-gine don amfanin kasuwanci. Amma unguwannin da tuni suka sanya gine-ginen gidaje masu tasowa tun lokacin da aka kirkiresu, kamar su Condesa da Hipódromo, sun sami damar kiyaye halayensu kamar unguwannin zama, kodayake yawancin shagunan cin abinci, gidajen cin abinci, sanduna da shaguna sun bayyana a ƙasa. darasi wanda yanzu ke haɓaka wannan sashin salon a cikin garin Mexico.
