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Mexico City Turns Concrete Highway Pillars into Vertical Gardens to Fight Heat and Pollution

Living highway pillars help Mexico City combat heat and pollution

  • Publish date: Wednesday، 26 August 2026 Reading time: 1 min read
Mexico City Turns Concrete Highway Pillars into Vertical Gardens to Fight Heat and Pollution

Mexico City is dealing with pretty severe urban heat, and also a lot of traffic pollution. So to push back on these urgent environmental issues, the city rolled out a thing where highway pillars get turned into living vertical gardens, like a rapid fix but also long-term.
 

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