Seeing a familiar place through a new lens can unveil great potential for change
“I know it is hard to believe, but we hadn’t realized what we had on our back [doorstep] until the team of urban practitioners came and pointed out the potential of the volcano. Suddenly the volcano appeared to us in all its greatness and as a water provider.”
[Ana Alvarez/Community of Miravalle]
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We have invited Edwin Heathcote, architecture and design critic of the Finantial Times, to write about the urbanxchanger experience.
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The Miravalle Community Council aims to foster local transformation, and, in the process, become a model for socio-cultural reactivation in other marginalised urban communities.
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Three interventions to three urgent issues: the importance of protecting the city’s edge; the effective use of local resources; and the safeguarding of public spaces.
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Miravalle forms part of the Iztapalapa borough on the periphery of Mexico City, and is located on the side of a dormant volcano, overlooking the metropolitan urban landscape below
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Ana Álvarez, researcher in Mexico City, was the local coordinator for urbanxchanger in that city and draws her notes on that process.
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