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August 13, 2010
The project Suburbia Mexicana explores the major transformation in the landscape was taking place in Mexico city. Both private and public sectors are enforcing it and thousands of serial houses are being built. Cartagena says:
The economic strategies, implemented with a new publicly financed plan, had deliberately excluded urban growth from the metropolitan planning regulation. This allowed developers to design urbanization for profit rather than for the community’s well-being. Due to this plan the construction of roadways, parks and proper public transportation systems were far from becoming a reality for the future inhabitants.
The first part of the project is, Topographies of a fragmented city in which Cartagena sets out to document the new suburbs.
Alejandro Cartagena, Fragmented Cities
The series was shot over period of three years in his hometown of Monterrey, Mexico, and focuses on disruption to the landscape, both physical and social, that has occurred as a result of overbuilding. The landscape has been urbanized before plans for efficient roadways, recreational parks and public transportation can be realized.
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