Amazing Photos Of Mexico City
Amazing Photos Of Mexico City Show That Natural Boundaries Are No Match For Urban Sprawl — Unbelievable aerial photographs of Mexico City show how the urban landscape spreads over mountains while maintaining a remarkable 25,400 people per square mile. “In a megalopolis like Mexico City,” photographer Pablo Lopez Muz tells the Daily Mail, “the relationship between man and space is ever so apparent.”
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Mexico City’s “sprawling suburbs” are home to over 20 million people, making it the most populous city in the western hemisphere.
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Rings of homes form ocean-like waves over hills and flatlands. Photographer Pablo Lopez Muz says the city is “constantly threatened by its incessant population growth and its lack of infrastructure.
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While half of Mexico’s population lives in poverty, the capital city is among the country’s richest.
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“Flying over Mexico City has always been an overwhelming experience,” says the photographer, who snapped the photos from the cockpit of a two-person plane. “For ages it seems like the urban landscape with no ending.”
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