https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/pyavv4/evergrandes_handiwork/
Some cool people in the comments, and some unironic murican suburbs apologists :stalin-gun-1: :dna:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/comments/pyavv4/evergrandes_handiwork/
Some cool people in the comments, and some unironic murican suburbs apologists :stalin-gun-1: :dna:
It wasn't a bad choice at all; it was simply adapted successfully to its environment. Tenochtitlan had buildings on the high ground, a bunch of bridges and stilts connecting the stuff above water, and lots of chinampas (floating gardens) everywhere. As a result it was relatively stable and not very flood-prone.
Mexico City drained the Texcoco swamps, and ever since then, it has struggled with both flooding and damage from seismic activity.
But the pyramid next to el Zocalo was the most important place and it wasn't high ground, every few decades they had to re-coat the sunking pyramid into a new pyramid. It has like seven layers and the inner most is almost at a 90 ° angle cuz it sunked sideways
They weren't perfect, and it's definitely arguable that it had sprawled larger than what made sense for islands in a lake. It's all still categorically better than draining the wetland to then build conventionally on.