{"id":3737,"date":"2020-08-19T16:29:11","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2026-08-22T21:12:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:12:51","slug":"a-social-infrastructural-node-in-mexicos-city-eastern-periphery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.gsd.harvard.edu\/mci\/a-social-infrastructural-node-in-mexicos-city-eastern-periphery\/","title":{"rendered":"A Social Infrastructural Node in Mexico\u2019s City Eastern Periphery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">A Social Infrastructural Node in Mexico\u2019s City Eastern Periphery<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide has-text-color has-link-color has-small-font-size wp-elements-1 is-vertical is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-524f8de7 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\" style=\"color:#e4007c\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Victor Rico<\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0Master in Architecture and Urban Design<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Adriana Ch\u00e1vez<\/strong>\u00a0|\u00a0Master in Urbanism, Landscape and Ecology and Master in Architecture II<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">In Collaboration with\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.a-ru.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Agencia Resiliencia Urbana<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:45px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer is-style-default\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped is-style-has-modal wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"3739\" 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This understanding is primarily associated with the most pressing water-related urban vulnerabilities that this city faces on a daily basis. Instead of delivering a \u2018final product\u2019 we are here to present a work in progress that aspires to something more ambitious. Envisioning it as part of a new urban strategy that aims to mitigate water-related urban vulnerabilities in Mexico City. This project is intended to be a toolbox that disaggregates into three parts: a documentary, a manual or guide in print and finally a prototype that can be tested using the most advanced academic infrastructures in the country. 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