Sitting atop ancient ruins and once-vast lakes, today's Mexico City is both humming with history and hungry for change.

In Fare: Mexico City:

• Walk the canal-lined floating farms of Xochimilco, where the last vestiges of the city’s ancient agriculture still thrive

• Meet chef-activists Saqib Keval and Norma Listman, who interweave their culinary heritages in a workplace built on change

• Visit the studio of Afro-Mexican ceramicist Dagoberto Gonzalez, whose clay work is crafted from the volcanic black sands of his ancestor’s villages

• Breathe in a burst of colour in the Mercado de Jamaica, a densely packed flower market named for its vibrant purple dried hibiscus flowers

• Watch taqueros spin out plates of tacos al pastor, the city-wide favourite with Ottoman origins