Situated along the banks of the Lerma River, whose waters have been supporting the fertile farmlands in the Huatzindeo Valley for centuries, the historic city of Salvatierra has a rich agricultural heritage. In recent decades, however, a waning interest in farming as a lifestyle coupled with urban sprawl — and an influx of criminality, violence and vandalism — has taken its toll on the
Mexican municipality. One regenerative project is attempting to change that. The revitalization of Batanes Ecological Park, led by local firm 3 M E Arquitectura (a family workshop helmed by brothers Enrico Eugenio Hernández Cervantes and Augusto Valentino Hernández Cervantes, who work closely with their heritage-restorer mother, Eugenia Cervantes, and…

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