In 2016, the residents’ association of Santa Fe, a shiny glass tower–studded modern business district on the western fringes of Mexico City, struck a deal with the city government to create a generous swath of open green space at the former site of a colossal sand mine (and later landfill). As part of the agreement, it was stipulated that the new public park, its creation inspired by the sprawling Parc Martin Luther King in Paris’s Clichy-Batignolles redevelopment zone, would function in a self-sufficient manner detached from governmental purse strings and reliant on alternative sources of funding for maintenance and operations. Per the plan, a key source of
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