Like Los Angeles, Mexico City “has a lot of infill,” says architect Francisco Pardo, who is on the faculty at SCI-Arc as well as Mexico’s Universidad Iberoamericana, and coordinates the SCI-Arc Mexico initiative. “With 21 million people, [Mexico City] is much larger than Los Angeles,” says architect and SCI-Arc Vice Director John Enright. At an urban level, it is the much more dense kind of city that maybe Los Angeles is starting to approach. SCI-Arc Mexico launched well before the U.S. presidential election and Donald Trump’s assumption of power. But SCI-Arc Mexico represents a more profound commitment to engaging issues of design and urbanism in Latin America.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 23, 2017 20:26 UTC