A Mexican Architect Draws Plans for a Futuristic City That Blurs the US-Mexico Border Rafa Fernandez De Castro - Fusion
go to original October 5, 2016

One of Mexico’s most famous architects is taking a conceptual approach to border development, imagining a future much different than Donald Trump’s dystopian walled-off border ghetto.

Fernando Romero, who has led some of his country’s most ambitious urban mega-projects in recent years, including Mexico City’s new international airport, is now setting his sights on the border region where he’s drawn plans to build the world’s first binational metropolis.

His latest project, simply titled “Border City,” is a proof-of-concept for a more than 3-billion square foot city that would literally straddle the U.S.-Mexico border in a way that would revolutionize and integrate community dynamics between both nations.

The Mexican architect insists the project is feasible and will become reality someday.

“We’ve considered several locations to physically shape the Border City concept,” Romero told Fusion in an email. “We’ve decided a location that lies between three border states: Chihuahua, New Mexico and Texas.”

“We envision a city that develops in unitary form on both sides of the border, and that establishes the creation of a binational zone in its center, where citizens coming from both sides can live together and where institutions and commerce areas are concentrated.”

The city would ultimately be designed in the shape of several hexagons that function as residential districts or industrial hubs

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