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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 2h

Mostly land use changes from residential to retail and offices. There are no big real estate developments within those neighborhoods, only in adjacent ones.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 11h

Mexico City has a participatory budget. Usually, neighbors vote for pavement and street lighting with super low turnouts.
This year, some of the wealthiest neighborhoods voted to hire lawyers to prtoect exclusionary zoning within their boroughs 😖

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 13h

Found my first Spanish (language) housing book that avoids the typical leftist NIMBY antifinancialization approach that dominates the Latin American and Spanish housing discourse.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 4d

Cute checkboard informal settlement in the ejidos of Eastern Mexico City.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 11d

Poza Rica is Mexico's first case of urban decline.
Mexico's first oil town now loses 1.1% of its population annually. The recent floods are just going to accelerate its inevitable decadence.

Reuters @reuters.com · 12d

Residents of Poza Rica, Mexico, continued cleanup efforts following devastating floods that destroyed homes and left streets covered in mud, debris and overturned vehicles.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 12d

Which would be nice considering Tijuana's highest density is 70 dwellings per acre 😢

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 19d

🥳

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 19d

There is high demand. Monterrey is one of the cities with highest internal immigration rate.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 19d

Where?

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 19d

I have been studying how Mexican urban sprawl has been driven by public mortgage financing.
I am curious why Monterrey lacks significant informal settlements compared to other Mexican cities.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 25d

Guadalajara has this really annoying green belt in the south of the city that has fostered sprawl into the municipality of Tlajomulco, far from the city center.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 26d

Just like the Soviet Union. Mexican social housing designs are repeated all over the country.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · Sep 26

Is there another example of a metro system that brags about having more metro lines than they actually do? In Monterrey, lines 2 & 3 and 4 & 6 are basically the same line, and operate as such.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · Sep 26

I am writing a tender for zoning ordinances and master plans. Need to evaluate the bidders’ methodologies; I’m expecting mostly bs. How can I quantify their zoning approaches objectively?

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · Sep 25

Mexican urban growth patterns shifted by decade: 1940-60s northern border cities boomed; 1960-80s Oil-oriented Gulf cities; post-1980s beach resort towns.

Chiapas's cities likely reflect its exceptional high birth rates.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · Sep 22

Merch being sold while the widow spoke is the gringoest thing ever.

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Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · Sep 18

In Monterrey, Lock-off apartments are becoming quite popular. Most new developments offer them.
Probably, a result of low dwelling densities.