Overcoming «environmental inertia». Ignacio Lopez Bancalari, Engineer, the National Irrigation Systems and the agricultural city of Pabellon

Abstract

The text aims to present some recent news from Eng. Ignacio Lopez Bancalari, who greatly contributed to putting into practice the ideas of President Plutarco Elias Calles to build the First Irrigation District of the country. Thus, the main challenge of this engineer was to modernize Mexico by taking advantage of natural resources to expand agricultural frontiers and thus design and project the agricultural city of Pabellon, which represented, for its time, a progressive vision of the organization of the territory in connection with variables of the landscape and the rural or semi-rural regional environment, in order to overcome the prevailing environmental inertia.