A return to Mexico City's lacustrine origins

2015-11-16T11:27:00-05:00

Basically, instead of allowing this anarchic development to continue growing over the bed of the lake – which is very expensive, because the quality of the soil is very bad – we wanted to conduct the growth of the city around the lake area, and to recover a huge natural feature that belongs to everyone, which will change the climate of the city.

Shumi Bose learns from Alberto Kalach (of Taller de Arquitectura X), why the solution to the capital’s future growth may be found in embracing a pre-Hispanic, lacustrine form of urbanism.

To learn more about the "The hydrological balance of the city", read this weeklong report (also from the Guardian) which reveals "the triumphs of the past, the current battles, and the crisis looming in the future".

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A return to Mexico City's lacustrine origins