México: Ciudad Futura (1998)

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Rivers and lakes once cemented year after year call out as the most hardened of the activists: the memory of water, whose voice was tried to be silenced by men, is shaped into the floods that take place during the wet season in Mexico City. Yet, despite all those overflowing and mixed-into-the-drainage cubic meters, in the time of dry season the biggest city in the world sees water tank trucks going around the streets due to water scarcity.

With only 10 years to stop the climate change catastrophe, imitating nature is no longer enough. Today, betting on regeneration is urgent. México: Ciudad Futura (1998), by Alberto Kalach, is perhaps the most ambitious project that Regenerative Architecture has given to our country. A sample of how our city would look like, if its nature (of being lacustrine) and all the biodiversity it deserves were recovered, is presented below.

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