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Mexico City's new airport is an environmental disaster but it could become a huge national park

  • Written by Gabriel Diaz Montemayor, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Texas at Austin
Mexico City's new airport is an environmental disaster but it could become a huge national parkMexico City's new Norman Foster-designed airport, seen here in a computer rendering, is visually striking but environmentally problematic.Presidencia de la República Mexicana CC-by-2.0, CC BY

Mexico City long ago outgrew the two-terminal Benito Juárez International Airport, which is notorious for delays, overcrowding and canceled...

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