Architect and urban designer Richard De Pirro believes cities provide opportunity through economic growth and better access to health services. but he also recognises that it brings along a variety of challenges - an example is access to clean water infrastructure.

"For many years, people began to drink soft drinks, because it was something that was safer than drinking unsafe drinking water. Nowadays, those options are changing, and people have to adapt to get away from the sugar."

Richard David De Pirro is a co-founding partner of DgL Architecture and Urban Design . He is a professor at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) Faculty of Architecture teaching in both urbanism and landscape Architecture. In 2010, he co founded the IMU (Mexican Institute for Urbanism) which is dedicated to the promotion of the urban design practice in Mexico.

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