Mobility, air quality and natural resources are the problems facing Mexico as a metropolis

Miquel Adrià, architect and magazine director Arquine in Mexico he explained that The central issues that should be favored in a metropolis such as Mexico City are: mobility, air quality and natural resources.

In turn, Miquel told Infobae that already you can not talk about Mexico as an organism, "but you must understand it as this metropolis and its twenty-six million inhabitants It occupies different municipalities of the State of Mexico, Hidalgo and Mexico City. "

When we talk about transportation, natural resources such as water or air are not just Mexico's problems, are part of this metropolitan design around the world.

"The outstanding and necessary problems in all the metropolises on our planet are very well diagnosed. You know very well what you need to do and you have to see, on the one hand, to make the topic of mobility more effective, the issue of public transit, to stop favoring the car, as a private car as a means of transportation and improvement of public transportation", explained the director of Arquine.

On mobility, Miquel gave the example of cycling or skateboarding as short distances. Although these must exist in "confined and safe routes", also emphasized the privilege of the sidewalk for the ordinary citizen"for the city to be a safe place"

Another problem facing the city is the quality of air and water, said that "in a city like Mexico, It's raining as much as in London and that there are problems of water scarcity, it is a subject that we must learn to manage over time"

Before this mention, he badured that the city of Mexico is lucky because citizens are provided here with a lot of liters each year, something that does not happen in other cities that have much more serious problems.

"The decision of the public space is an increasingly pluralistic, inclusive and secure space"said Miquel Adrià.

According to the new government administration, Miquel mentioned that "With the question of mobility, I would say yes" believes that results are visible in future projects of the city.

"The mobility secretariat is composed of one very competent team who had been working on these issues for years and they are not newcomers. They are very prepared people and I believe we will have immediate results that we can see and enjoy soon in our city"said the director of Arquine.

One of the spaces for the pedestrian privilege is the sidewalk, done by which Miquel thinks that all the first image of the city must be pedestrian. However, he felt that spaces of historical value should only be considered by pbaders-by.

"This requires planning from which we are missing at this moment and we would have to look at each case, but certainly the centers, with historical value, which have this capital as an important tourist offer, I think they would improve a lot following the trend of other cities in the world where Historic centers are generally pedestrian and their access to private and public vehicles is limited at times, "he said, Miquel for Infobae.

"I mean, it's not as if I had literally being pedestrian, but if you limit yourself most of the time and focusAbove all, the pedestrian must be able to exhaust it as a cultural and tourist space of the highest order, "he said.

Mextrópoli 2019, where the city ends

The festival of architecture and city The city has been trying to celebrate the city for six years, the home of most people on the planet.

To try to understand how to make this commonplace more friendly and able to accommodate the citizens with all the needs that all require.

This year, the limit, understanding that nowadays our metropolises are no longer those cities that have been contrasted in the countryside-city, but now they are metropolitan magmas that extend over the territory without clarity or definition of its limits.

The festival has more 100 activities how are: seven exhibitions and conferences of architects, urban planners, mayors and writers. Among them are the Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena (Pritzker Prize 2016), David Chipperfield (Jumex Museum), Antonio Villaraigosa (the former mayor of Los Angeles), the writer Juan Villoro, among others.