The year is 2042. Guadalajara is celebrating its 500th birthday. You board an electric train in Chapala’s renovated railway station and 30 minutes later you are in downtown Guadalajara. Stepping out onto the city streets, you see a stream of pedestrians and cyclists, but not a car in sight. After a short stroll you stop to relax on a bench in the lush green surroundings of the Central Park.
This is how a group of local architects envisage Guadalajara in 30 years’ time. The Progressive Architecture Laboratory (LeAP) and Total Quality Management (MTQ) have spent over a year working respectively on the creative and technical aspects of plans to transform the metropolitan zone.
The evolution of a previous study commissioned by the state government in 2008, their “vision of a car-free city with extensive green areas and sustainable communities living downtown” was first presented at the 13th Biennale of Architecture in Venice, Italy in August. The reaction was “very positive” and their proposals “generated a lot of interest,” says Raul Juarez Perezlete of LeAP.
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