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09/26/2025

09/26/2025

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Concrete is turning green in Mexico City, and it smells like flowers after rain.

Along the Periférico highway, crews are wrapping hundreds of gray pillars with vertical flower gardens. The idea is simple. Put plants where there was only concrete, help clean the air, cool the street, and give people something alive to look at on their commute.

Locals call it Vía Verde. It started as a citizen push and grew into a citywide project. The plan covers more than 1,000 pillars along about 27 km, creating roughly 60,000 square meters of living walls.

The gardens use pockets of felt made from recycled plastic. Drip lines feed the plants with captured rainwater and treated gray water. Sensors watch light, moisture, and nutrients so crews can adjust care without wasting water.

Will plants on pillars erase smog on their own? No. Even supporters agree this is not a silver bullet. But studies and experience show green surfaces can help trap dust, take up some pollutants, cut heat, and soften traffic noise. They also make a harsh space feel human.

If you drive this road, you notice it. Polluted air, stressful traffic, then a ribbon of color and leaves. People take photos at stoplights. Kids point from bus windows. A small dose of calm in a busy city.

Projects like this work best alongside bigger moves. Cleaner transport. More trees at street level. Less car dependence. Still, these gardens show what can happen when a city uses the space it has and lets nature in.

References
Mexico City's vertical gardens: seeds of change or cynical greenwashing? - The Guardian
Mexico City's vertical gardens for pollution reduction - Circle Economy Knowledge Hub
Vía Verde prepares to go international with its high-tech, vertical gardens - Mexico News Daily
Mexico City Has An Innovative Vertical Garden On A Massive Highway - World Economic Forum

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