Canal Nacional is a man-made waterway linking the Mexico City's center with Xochimilco in the southern part of the city. The waterway had been used for transportation since the pre-Hispanic time to the 1950s.[1] It was also used as water supply as it drew from the same springs in the Lake Xochimilco and Lake Chalco areas.[2]
View of the canal in San Andrés Tomatlán [es]
Since the 1950s, many rivers and canals in the city have been closed to make space for city expansion. Canal Nacional is the only remaining artificial open air channel in the city. In 1993, the government planned to turn Canal Nacional into a roadway. That was faced with a strong resistance from the residents. Today, the community members try to come up with a plan to preserve the waterway and engage people in active uses of it.[1]
Canal Nacional was listed as one of 25 sites of the 2020 World Monuments Watch published by World Monuments Fund (WMF) to highlight historical sites that deserve an immediate attention in preservation efforts.[3]
Referencesedit
^ ab"Residencia Semilla: Regenerating Mexico City's Canal Nacional Through a Participatory Design Programme" (PDF). World Design Organization. 28 August 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
^Banister, Jeffrey; Widdifield, Stacie G (2015). "Seeing water in early twentieth-century Mexico City: Henry Wellge's perspective plan of the city and valley of Mexico, D.F., 1906". Anales del Instituto de Investigaciones Esteticas. 37 (107). Retrieved 4 March 2021.
^"2020 Watch Sites". World Monuments Fund. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
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