How Mexico City Is Surprisingly Well Designed

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This is Amsterdam Avenue, and at first glance you might be fooled into thinking that we are in Amsterdam Holland, with these cycle friendly tree lined streets but actually we are in the heart of Mexico City one of the worst cities for green urban spaces.
Mexico city has only 2.2 percent green cover, which is terribly low, only 3.5 m 2 per inhabitant, which is far below the 9 m 2 recommended by the World Health Organization.
Yet if you walked around the streets of this neighborhood called Colonial Condesa you would never realize it, the streets are almost a paradise for pedestrians, runners and cyclists.
If we switch to street view on google maps you can really start to get a picture of the size of these tree lined streets, they are huge, the canopy covers almost the whole street.
Providing sufficient amount of shade not only for pedestrians but also for cars cooling of the urban space from the heat island effect.
The tall trees also provide sufficient shade for high rise buildings and the trees tops are also nice to look at from apartment windows as well from a street view perspective. Making it an all around pleasant experience for people sitting in cafes and restaurants too.
Even European cities that are supposed to be so incredibly well designed do not really have that many green urban spaces that compare to La colonial Condesa in Mexico City.
For example the dedicated Pedestrian areas I’ve encountered in Europe tend to be wide and very urbanized with small trees that are contained and confined within the concrete Landscape. The trees are all the same species often planted in lines, there's no diversity, its all uniformity.
Ultimately the trees and plants just do not thrive and often die like this. The fallen leaves - the vital nutrients for a tree are not allowed to degrade into the soil and even if a small square of exposed earth is left around the tree, humans still remove everything they can, with leaf blowers and chemicals.
Instead on Avenue Amsterdam and the surrounding streets of this neighborhood, Nature starts to feel like the dominating force, despite the high density of apartment buildings all around. Walking through these streets is one of the closest experiences you'll have to walking in a forest but in the middle of city.
This is because the green urban planning design has been made to replicate nature, there is a variation of different tree stands, and under story shrubs, the dedicated area for the green space is actually twice as large as the actual pedestrian area, which allows for leaf litter to fall, and is just left to degrade naturally, it is in fact its own ecosystem.
In this video we will show how and why Colonial Condesa in Mexico City is so green and walkable!
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