The city had turned its back on the riverbank. Despite its potential to function as a vital public space, the area that lay between the Papaloapan River and the city limits of Tuxtepec — an industrial town in Oaxaca, Mexico — had become something of a liability. Locals largely avoided it; a nearby brewery’s operations had silted up the water, making it unnavigable, and informal settlements and merchants had cropped up on the unkempt land. Recent years had seen the local government make occasional efforts to draw families back to the green space — installing playgrounds, soccer fields and basketball courts — but these perfunctory measures inevitably fell short.
“The attempts to activate the area were unsuccessful because they were...
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