User:Mrkstvns/WB1

This is a sandbox for working on re-districtification of Mexico City.

The western neighborhoods of Mexico City include commercial and financial centers with clusters of modern skyscrapers as well as large parks and residential areas. A number of hip neighborhoods are in this part of the city, filled with cafes and art galleries.

• Polanco = A wealthy residential area in Mission (colonial) style containing some of the most expensive designer boutique stores in the city. Filled with embassies, upscale restaurants, night clubs and hotels.

• Chapultepec-Lomas - Chapultepec is one of the biggest urban parks in the world. The park hosts the main city zoo, a castle (now a museum), lakes, an amusement park and many museums. Nearby Lomas de Chapultepec is the wealthiest district in the city, filled with walled off mansions.

• Condesa and Roma - Reborn after decades of oblivion, now brimming with the city's trendiest restaurants, bistros, clubs, pubs and shops. The neighborhoods are on opposite sides of Avenida Insurgentes, around Parque Mexico and España.

• Zona Rosa= Also known to tourists as the Reforma district because it embraces Paseo de la Reforma Avenue, it is an important business and entertainment district. It is widely known to be the gay center of town.

• Santa Fe - A modern, redeveloped business district at the city's western tip that consists mainly of high rise buildings, surrounding a large shopping mall.

The southern parts of Mexico City are a transitional zone where the bustling urban neighborhoods give way to open spaces, including farms, vast green spaces, and volcanoes and mountain peaks. It includes historic plazas and colonial neighborhoods in Coyoacan, canals and floating gardens in Xochimilco, quiet leafy streets and shopping plazas in Tlalpan, and green spaces in Magdalena Contreras and Milpa Alta.

• Coyoacan - A colonial town swallowed by urban sprawl, it is now a center for counter-culture, art, students, and intellectuals. It's where Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera hung out, and near the country's largest university.
• San Angel - Trendy, gentrified area lined with cobblestone streets, upscale boutiques and many restaurants. It is a wealthy residential area known for its arts market.
• Xochimilco - Famous for its extended series of Aztec irrigation canals — all that remains of the ancient Xochimilco lake. Xochimilco has kept its ancient traditions, such as the yearly feasts of its many villages, even though the impact of constant urbanization is a constant threat to its proud heritage.
• Tlalpan and Pedregal - Tlalpan is home of the Ajusco, a volcanic mountain peak and National Park, the highest mountain inside Mexico City proper. The center of Tlalpan is a colonial town now surrounded by the urban sprawl. Pedregal is a wealthy residential area built on top of (and using) the volcanic stone from the eruption of the Xitle volcano.
• Magdalena Contreras - Sometimes called the city's "green lungs", this area in the southwest of Mexico City is heavily forested with eco-parks to the south and about 250,000 residents in the northern urban areas near the Periferico.
• Milpa Alta - Rural borough in the southeast of Mexico City. Famous for its mole production and festival, nopal cactus fields, and the San Andrés convent in Mixquic.