In an area of Lake Texcoco’s Federal Enclosure there is a football court, lined with stark green nylon grass. The field is empty, connected to other sports courts by trails. Next to them, there are wooden cabins, also deserted and idle. All of these constructions are part of a project which became urgent and polemic during the Presidency of Felipe Calderón. The Lake Texcoco Ecological Park was put forward alongside another project: Mexico, Future City. Both insisted in the need to recover a lacustrine area of the mostly dry Lake Texcoco, with the purpose of mitigating an imminent environmental impact the city had resisted for decades. Small variations differentiated one project from the other (the largest were probably political): they proposed, each one in its own way, a system of lakes and interconnected islands habilitating the ecological functions of a protected land. At the same time, both projects foresaw some uniform urbanizations (perhaps for the middle class), as well as different kinds of businesses. These projects aimed at setting up a new airport as the axis of the ensemble, in its center. [...]
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