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Synthetic ecology : revisiting Mexico City's lakes project ; Revisiting Mexico City's lakes project
| Institution: | MIT |
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| Department: | Architecture |
| Degree: | M.C.P. |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Keywords: | n-mx – ; Urban Studies and Planning. ; Architecture. |
| Record ID: | 1892161 |
| Full text PDF: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/67223 |
Abstract
Mexico City was founded 700 years ago on man made islets in the middle of a lake. Today, it faces a contradictory situation were water is running scarce, but simultaneously the city runs the risk of drowning in its own sewage. A series of past projects -all addressing the hydrological imbalance- outline a lineage that makes pin pointing the intellectual coordinates of the present project easier. Taking Mexico City's Metropolitan Basin as an excuse, this thesis aims at systematizing an approach to deal with projects at scales that oscillate between the metropolitan region and the watershed. Synthetic Ecology is proposed for this purpose as the pluralistic and inclusive coexistence of urbanism, landscape design and engineering understood as autonomous fields.
