Echeverria hopes that the area of the central Mexico City valley once covered by Lake Texcoco can be reclaimed to create a new urban landscape that combines nature with infrastructure. The area of ...

Plans for Mexico's $1 billion Lake Texcoco Ecological Park reflect a new paradigm in urban design. When the Mexica people left their ancestral land of Aztlán in search of a new home, they were ...

The Aztecs built their city on a rock in Lake Texcoco, mostly because the more prime locations along the shore were already taken. By 1427 the powerful Aztecs had defeated their lakeshore ...