The future of urban life.
This article appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Next American City magazine.
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The Human Landscape
Co-existence and the Merging of Civilization and Nature
Cuautepec, Mexico Vegetation co-exists with waste on this river in cuautepec, guerrero, where mountainside neighborhoods surround a smog-ridden metropolis. mexico is notorious for air pollution — a problem that the city has tried to tackle for decades. river pollution has recently been added to the list of growing concerns. Domingo Milella
Photographer Domingo Milella travels the world, capturing images of the way people interact with the landscape around them.
“I go to these places and I want to know where the borders lie. I am interested in where the colonization — the Western influence of a place — meets the ancient culture that has always been there. In Mexico City, this was the spot where I saw this, where I felt this most clearly — the old and the new together.”
