Although a very different viewpoint on Mexico City’s UPE, I am aware that my blog is focuses on the more traditional way of analysing UPE issues. This is a short attempt at branching out from those roots. My focus will be on Mexico City resident and artist Gilberto Esparza’s art and its relation to Mexico…

In previous blog posts, I have gone into detail about water and urban political ecology so this blog post will explore how political, social and economic relations structure local sense of place and connection to Xochimilco. By investigating the local’s sense of place, I hope to uncover the relations which structure access to this unique…

In my previous post, I explored what happens at the start and finish of Mexico City’s water flow.  This post will go into what happens in between, by looking at the transportation and distribution of water through the lens of ‘urban metabolism’ which I mentioned in my previous post. The amount of water coming out…

When it comes to urban political ecology and Mexico City in academic literature, there is no doubt that water is the most written about topic in the literature. The rapid processes of urbanisation over the past 700 years have turned Mexico City from a city of floating gardens and a place that was once dubbed…

Waste in Mexico City is a fairly under-researched area in urban political ecology literature despite being extremely interesting when analysed under the microscope of urban metabolism. Inspired a lecture on waste and ‘circular economies’ , it makes sense this week to look at these topics in Mexico City. From a UPE standpoint, looking at urban…

Mexico City has a very complex dilemma between the housing needs of a rising population and environmental conservation. Obviously, this is not an uncommon situation in this day and age with the majority of large urban cities experiencing urban sprawl to some extent. A prime example being London, right on our doorstep, which has its…

Mexico City was named in 1992 by the UN as the “most polluted city on the planet”[1], however it is trying to shake off its prior reputation as a smog and soot filled city. A narrative which has been at the forefront of this attempted change is from changing Mexico City from grey to green….

Welcome to my blog exploring the urban political ecology of Mexico City. Urban political ecology “seeks to understand the ways in which our urban environments are produced and reproduced, focusing on questions such as who decides, how they decide, who benefits and who loses.”[1] As someone who is born and bred in the UK and…