in an attempt to replenish the Valley of Mexico's water supply and vegetation.

The proposal incorporated a concept called "cultural ecology." "This space, located on the edge of the metropolitan area of Mexico City, can today be claimed as a new ecology that incorporates nature, culture and infrastructure," said the project. . 

for a 35,000-hectare ecological park 

Echeverría, a faculty member at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, originally designed the Lake Texcoco ecological park in 2010 as part of a plan to develop and restore 14,000 hectares of the seasonally dry lakebed.

Four years later, former President Peña Nieto's plans for a new airport sidelined the project, and only a few hectares of recreational areas were developed and opened to the public in 2016.

Following the promise by President López Obrador to cancel the new airport, Echeverría submitted his design for the ecological park to the new administration as an alternativee plan for the area's development.


The 2010 proposal states that the park was originally envisioned as a "soft ecological boundary" in the face of population explosions from the 1950s until the present, which have transformed the Valley of Mexico's geography into dense urban spaces.

The objective is to reclaim this area as the valley's most important piece of green infrastructure. This infrastructure will be capable of reconciling the city with its geography.