In the ancient
Texcoco Lake basin, stigmatized for over 30 years, there is an area which,
along with the recently obtained land, includes over 143 million square meters.
This space located in the outskirts of the metropolitan zone of the capital
city can be reclaimed as a new ecology that incorporates nature, culture, and
infrastructure, A CULTURAL ECOLOGY.
This project will be
capable of revitalizing the social, cultural, and educational networks of an
urban area characterized by significant shortages. It will also represent an
action of historic justice that will provide social quality public spaces to
the most economically depressed social region of the meta-metropolitan zone of
the valley of Mexico.
Upon
completion, Parque Texcoco will
become the largest urban park in the world, reclaiming over 35,000 acres for
public space and infrastructure. The space will feature recreational areas
including more than 500 sport facilities and 115km of bikeways; a site museum
as well as diverse research and service facilities. It will generate more than
11,000 jobs and will help increase and promote environmental education, while
reducing the dramatic present condition and it´s pollution effects on the
health of residents of the entire Valley.
Texcoco
Park will become a tangible symbol of how our societies can incorporate natural
processes and can contribute to the proper functioning of the environment at
large.
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