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Urban Jungle
Along the metroline ‘Urban Jungle’ you see the huge city from another surprising perspective. The country is present in the middle of all the chaotic pulsating urban life, inhabitants have rabits on the roof, and the rich biodiversity of this geografical area finds its way through the pavement tiles.
The urban threat
Urban ecosystems present one of the greatest challenges to the environmental sustainability of our planet. As well as consuming their own resources, cities require huge quantities of imported energy and materials, while they discharge their waste in distant ecosystems. Mexico City, with 20 million inhabitants and a barely-emerging ecological awareness, is still far from effectively reducing its environmental impact.
Cultural dimension
However, there is no use in reducing the urban world to the source of intractable ecological crises. While the existence and growth of cities is an irreversible process, it is essential that the solutions we formulate take into account not only the technological and economic dimensions, but also the cultural dimension, which defines the manner in which we conceive of our natural surroundings and how we relate to them.
Read more about the exhibition Citámbulos - Drifting Through the Mexican Megalopolis