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СпутникиРНSpaceXРоскосмосNASAVera Candiani, Associate Professor of History, will present “How to Sink a Megacity: A History of Water, Land, and Environmental Change in Mexico City” Join us in the Briger Hall Auditorium, 11 Ivy Lane, or stream it live. Candiani is the second speaker in the Fall 2026 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
Modern Mexico City’s chronic flooding, aquifer depletion, and land subsidence are the cumulative result of five centuries during which land speculators, financiers, state engineers, and political authorities transformed a lake basin into a megacity whose very development generated the conditions for today’s water crisis. This talk traces how, from the seventeenth century onward, successive projects to drain the lakes, control water, and expand the city reshaped the basin’s hydrology while allocating environmental costs and benefits along class lines. By placing this process in historical perspective, the lecture explains how and why those conditions became embedded in the city’s development.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available in the Briger Atrium at 11:45 a.m.
Vera Candiani, Associate Professor of History, will present “How to Sink a Megacity: A History of Water, Land, and Environmental Change in Mexico City” Join us in the Briger Hall Auditorium, 11 Ivy Lane, or stream it live. Candiani is the second speaker in the Fall 2026 HMEI Faculty Seminar Series.
Modern Mexico City’s chronic flooding, aquifer depletion, and land subsidence are the cumulative result of five centuries during which land speculators, financiers, state engineers, and political authorities transformed a lake basin into a megacity whose very development generated the conditions for today’s water crisis. This talk traces how, from the seventeenth century onward, successive projects to drain the lakes, control water, and expand the city reshaped the basin’s hydrology while allocating environmental costs and benefits along class lines. By placing this process in historical perspective, the lecture explains how and why those conditions became embedded in the city’s development.
This seminar is free and open to the public. Lunch will be available in the Briger Atrium at 11:45 a.m.
Vera Candiani
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| # | Наименование новости | Тональность | Информативность | Дата публикации |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| 2 | La Ciudad de México se hunde tan rápido que ya es visible desde el espacio | -2 | 7 | 05-05-2026 |
| 3 | Mexico City is SINKING: NASA satellite reveals how the city is subsiding by 10 inches per year - leaving 22 million people at risk | -2 | 6 | 04-05-2026 |
| 4 | NASA satellite reveals Mexico City is sinking by 10 inches per year | 0 | 8 | 04-05-2026 |
| 5 | National Workshop on Land Subsidence and Inclusive Smart City Development | 0 | 9.3 | 25-08-2026 |
| 6 | Confronting the Silent Crisis: Addressing Land Subsidence through Regional Cooperation and City Action | 0 | 8.9 | 03-02-2026 |
| 7 | Friday Seminar (17 April 2026) Sigurjón Jónsson (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology） | 0 | 18.89 | 30-03-2026 |
| 8 | What is Blue Infrastructure? Rethinking Water's Role in City Design | 0 | 7.37 | 17-08-2026 |
| 9 | Global Forum Environmental and Water Resources Engineering | 0 | 10.76 | 11-07-2026 |