lip through any new coffee table book about design, and inevitably you'll find that a good portion of the examples of cool will be located in Mexico City. Smart, achingly hip businesses abound in the country’s capital, and every member of the creative class is a designer, an architect, or an artist. The buzziest places of bourgeois hipness are, unsurprisingly, concentrated in the fashionable neighborhoods. Whether you view them as valuable additions or visible signs of gentrification, the city is changing rapidly, from the Condesa/Roma axis, spreading to la Juárez and San Rafael, east to Centro, and down to Narvarte.