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EXPAND

Research about the MX-US border region has been extensively conducted and tools and resources have been created by many individuals, institutions and organizations over the years.

Perspectives and knowledge of this territory ranges from scientific and technical studies, to qualitative data, anecdotes and narratives. The more we collect and organize this information, our ability to share and exchange approaches, processes and outcomes can be more accessible.

Gabriel Diaz Montemayor

Here’s a better vision for the US-Mexico border: Make the Rio Grande grand again

The United States and Mexico have shared their current international border for nearly 170 years. Today they cooperate at multiple levels on issues that affect the border region, although you would not know it from the divisive rhetoric that we hear in both countries. President Trump’s focus on building a border wall threatens to undermine many binational initiatives, as well as our shared natural environment.

Tatiana Bilbao

Two Sides of the Border: Reimagining the Region

What if we stopped dividing the US and Mexico, and instead saw the border as one region? This book envisions the cultural and industrial cohesion of the area

Ronald Rael

Borderwall as Architecture

Borderwall as Architecture is an artistic and intellectual hand grenade of a book, and a timely re-examination of what the 650 miles of physical barrier that divides the United States of America from the United Mexican States is, and could be. It is both a protest against the wall and a projection about its future.

Carolyn Deuschle

The NAFTA Landscape: Working on the Edge in Chihuahua

In northern Mexico, on the outskirts of Chihuahua City, landscape architect Gabriel Diaz-Montemayor's innovative urban design guidelines, initially conceived as a response to the city's housing sprawl and isolation, aim to transform the overlooked urban edge into an untapped public amenity, promoting open green spaces, community connections, and a safer, more sustainable future despite setbacks in the real estate market.

OLD MEXICO LIVES

Over a century and a half after the Mexican-American War's border-redrawing, communities with the highest concentration of Mexicans, defined by ethnicity rather than citizenship, persist in the very territory that Mexico ceded to the United States in 1848, illustrating the enduring power of cultural ties over geographical boundaries.

Eric Owen Moss

A concept strategy for the re-design of the US-Mexican border at the request of the New York Times. The Foreign Affairs editor asked us to suggest a border strategy that would alleviate the current social and political tensions. What should the border look like?

Fernando Romero

The Contemporary U.S.–Mexico Border and Its Future

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

COLONIAS PROGRAM

The Texas A&M University Colonias Program helps increase self-sufficiency and enhances the quality of life for colonias residents all along the Texas-Mexico border.

Lateral Office

BANKING ON THE BORDER

Drylands Institute
Regional Study of US-Mexico Border /// 2012

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