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At the Biennale in Venice, A Fantasy Island Imported from Mexico

At the Biennale in Venice, A Fantasy Island Imported from Mexico

Mexico City’s small urban farms — known locally as chinampas — practice a sort of agriculture in reverse: instead of bringing water to land as most farms do, chinampas bring land to water. The chinampas in use today go back about a thousand years, to when Aztec farmers began building rectangular fields on top of vast lakes and growing food …

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