Jardín Edith Sánchez Ramírez is a pocket park in Colonia Roma, Mexico City. It is located in the triangle formed between calles Yucatán, San Luis Potosí and Tonalá, and covers 584 square metres.
Namesake The park is named after Edith Sánchez Ramírez, an activist who assisted victims of the 1985 Mexico City earthquake and took part in the subsequent recovery efforts through the Unión de Vecinos y Damnificados 19 de Septiembre (UVyD19), one of the neighbourhood organisations formed by displaced residents to press for housing.
Renovation By 2012 the park had fallen into disrepair, and had become a sanitation problem. It was renovated in 2014 by architects Karina Flores and Jorge Ramos with industrial designer Juskani Alonso, working alongside the Delegación Cuauhtémoc, local residents and the clothing brand American Eagle Outfitters.
According to Time Out México, all materials used in the reconstruction were recycled, and the design incorporated a permeable concrete additive to restore the site's capacity to absorb water, together with two absorption wells intended to help recharge the aquifer.
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