The streets and avenues of Mexico City (at least the neighbourhoods that this traveler saw) were ever so much greener than I expected. In Polanco, an affluent neighbourhood north of Chapultepec Park, the street we stayed on looked like this:
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It felt somewhat like the Upper East Side of New York crossed with the West End of Vancouver. But it wasn’t only the colonia of today’s rich where the exuberance of nature has filled in the spaces between the mid-rise buildings. Once-exclusive neighbourhoods of the 19th century – La Condesa and Roma – were if anything more graced with green thanks to the urban-design decisions of their developers, and are now the trendy neighbourhoods being rediscovered after the dangerous times of the late-20th century.
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This week on Mexico Enero: an exploration of the medians and boulevards of (some of) CDMX.
