Blue Stitches for a Broken City: Exploring the potential of drainage basins as backbone for improving the living environment in Las Cruces Mountain Range

Blue Stitches for a Broken City: Exploring the potential of drainage basins as backbone for improving the living environment in Las Cruces Mountain Range

García Ortiz, J.L.

Zandbelt, D.D. (mentor)
Sabaté Bel, J. (mentor)

Architecture

Urbanism

European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (E.M.U)

2013-09-12

Mexico City is built on a dissected lake and the urban expansion has appropriated the mountains surrounding the valley. This has brought environmental issues mostly related with water, but also problems related with the whole living environment on the territory of the mountains. So far problems of the city have been addressed either as valley or as mountain, not as a single system. The thesis takes one river and its drainage basin as case study that can be replicated in the rest of rivers of the city. The focus of study addresses the ecological regeneration of the drainage basin as starting point for regenerating the living conditions and joint that articulates the territory of the mountain with the valley. The geomorphological characteristics of the drainage basin are taken as backbone to define a spatial strategy that can be replicated and shift the city towards a more balanced metropolis.

landscape insfrastructure

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Student theses

master thesis

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