CDMXicans, please chime in
But yeah it's wild the way the city is on a whole lakebed that was drained cause the flooding was too inconvenient to the Spanish colonials, and the last bit of it that was still remaining was about to become a whole ass airport. I guess AMLO won just in time to cancel it (partially complete) and turn it into an Ecological Park. A huge W for a place that needs a sustainable source of water. It's pretty damn convenient that they already are in a lakebed if they can manage it correctly.
Anyway wealthy business interests apparently were big mad about it.
This is really interesting, thanks!
It reminds me of this concept about how 'we are living in the ruins of capitalism', and how that means rethinking fundamental assumptions that ideology obfuscates. Just incredibly cool how this also acknowledges the material history of the place. Real architecture of the anthropocene deep thinking going on here.