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| Name | MEXICO CITY, Mexico's MEGACITY | Largest City in the Americas |
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| Video Discription | Mexico's vast capital — Ciudad de México, the largest city in the Americas — is under threat from a severe water crisis and vulnerable to disasters like earthquakes. Subscribe to TDC: https://www.youtube.com/TheDailyConversation/ More information here: http://nyti.ms/2kFT35m Video by Bryce Plank and Robin West Music from Motion Array's library Like TDC on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/thedailyconversation Follow TDC on http://www.twitter.com/thedailyconvo Transcript: What makes this place unique? It is the world’s largest city at an elevation higher than 2000 meters. With 21.2 million residents it rivals New York City for the title of largest metropolis in Latin America, and it is one of the world’s oldest continuously populated urban areas. But what truly sets this megalopolis apart is also its biggest challenge. It is the largest city on Earth without direct access to a significant body of water, although that wasn’t always the case. This is an examination of Mexico City and the water crisis that threatens its continued prosperity. Nearly seven centuries ago, the Aztecs came across an island in the middle of a lake, in a vast valley, more than 2,000 meters above sea level, hundreds of kilometers from the nearest coast. Three hundred years later, a small group of Spanish explorers led by Hernan Cortes arrived, and what they found was a thriving capital city, the heartbeat of the Aztec empire with 300,000 souls. It was called Tenochtitlan, and it amazed the Europeans. Its labyrinth of canals dividing a network of manmade islands reminded them of Venice, and they wanted it for themselves. [Dr. John Pohl] “There in the center of the lake was this gleaming white city, it was something they’d never seen before. And for us we can almost imagine it as Dorothy looking at Oz for the first time. It was far larger at a quarter of a million people than any city they’d ever seen in Europe.” Armed with superior weaponry — and the most powerful exterminating agent, disease — the Europeans wiped the Aztecs out and systematically dismantled their great temples and pyramids. Then, they set out to quickly build the most renowned city in the Americas. They rejected the Aztec way of living harmoniously with the land and, instead, filled their canals, destroyed their “floating farms,” and drained water from the lake until it was completely empty. This set the city on a collision course with nature. Over time, it has grown to cover the entire lakebed, and well beyond. And because two volcanos — one of them still active — loom over the city from the south, the soil is a mix of clay from the lake and volcanic rock. That’s an unusual foundation to build a sprawling, heavy, concrete jungle on—and it’s why the city is sinking. But people keep on arriving, because the defining feature of Mexico City is centralism, the idea that all paths lead here. What used to be trails converging on grassy highlands, became dirt roads used by carts and donkeys loaded with goods, and are now the arterial roads that move millions. The jump in Mexico City’s population — like other megalopolises around the world — follows the widespread adoption of the motor vehicle. In 1950, its population was 3.1 million. As paved highways became more common, it jumped to 5.5 million by 1960, then it nearly tripled to 14 million inhabitants by 1980. Other episodes in this Megacities series: JAKARTA, Indonesia's MEGACITY | Saving Earth's Second Largest City https://youtu.be/h8-fwBMo6bc Los Angeles, California's MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QropkR9iasY Megacities of the World (Season 1 - Complete) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ULzxD3w_c8 TOKYO: Earth's Model MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SL9KRvzVmo PARIS: Europe's MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdObzSwVAw4 SAO PAULO: South America's MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNEeY_gXFBc DHAKA: Fastest Growing MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKGITvyWMH0 CAIRO: Middle East MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tKphKvodLQ DELHI: India's Capital MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUPTGDrXDy4 SHANGHAI: China's Largest MEGACITY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6XZekbQ0SE TDC Most Popular Videos Obama Makes Baby Stop Crying https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqhzWlqN3uc President Obama's Anger Translator at White House Correspondent's Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6NfRMv-4OY Greatest Recorded Speeches in American History (1933-2008) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVwvPpdFeY Bill Nye Destroys Noah's Ark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4OhXQTMOEc President Obama Walks The Streets of Washington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEEtBVPiI44 Trump Destroyed by Comedian Hasan Minhaj at 2017 White House Correspondents Dinner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHLRj1LaPiQ Seth Rogen Testifies Before Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvdbHSGWAgs President Obama's Anger Translator: Behind The Scenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xThj8BJIjUg |
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