2024-08-06 12:34:46
In the Mexico City exist 174 Heritage Conservation Areas Of which 135 correspond to pueblos y barrios origin. Due to its importance, the capital government presented a decree to protect these areas and enhance their heritage values.
He Head of Government, Martí Batresexplained that this initiative also seeks to prevent the loss or disappearance of heritage conservation areas, as well as to protect the spaces occupied by indigenous peoples and neighborhoods.
“The decree aims to… prevent their loss or even disappearance, ensuring at all times the protection of the identity, the founding housing, social and cultural fabric of these areas,” he said, sharing that it was published yesterday in the Official Gazette.
He explained that those areas located in the city’s original towns and neighborhoods, whose foundation and occupation date back to the pre-Hispanic era and the end of the 19th century, will be considered Heritage Conservation Areas.
The Secretary of Urban Development and Housing (Seduvi), Inti Muñozexplained that in the capital there are 174 Heritage Conservation Areas, delimited under the principles established in the Urban Development Law, of which 135 correspond to indigenous towns and neighborhoods.
He said that jointly, the secretariats of Urban Development and Housing, Culture and Administration and finance, They are working on defining measures with the aim of generating criteria of respect and balance with respect to the historic urban landscape.
Previously, in the morning conference of President López Obrador, the head of Government highlighted that the project “Chapultepec: Nature and Culturea”, will generate more than 75 thousand direct and indirect jobs.
Batres said that the investment is expected to be more than 10.5 billion pesos and that there are expected to be up to 30 million visitors a year.
CULTURE SECRETARIAT JOINS SHEINBAUM
As of August 1, Claudia Curiel de Icaza left her duties as head of the capital’s Culture Secretariat to join her duties at the federal level in the cabinet of the president-elect, Claudia Sheinbaum, the local leader reported through his social networks.
Batres recognized the work of Curiel at the head of the department and supported his decision to join Sheinbaum’s team.
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2024-08-06 12:34:46