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Google Street Viewing Mexico's dilapidated housing developments is more fun than visiting them in person. Usually I go with a driver who is too afraid to stop or drive slowly.

Yes. 5 million city.

Anyway, just one more case of shitty Mexican Urbanism requiring 1 parking space per units for social housing developments where 25% of households own a car.

Funny how Monterrey's densest neighborhood is a bunch of dingbats.

Data is migration between 2015-2020. Guadalajara has a high interstate migration because it is pushing its population to bordering municipalities outside the metropolitan area limits.

Some Mexican cities are going to experience a period of proper urban decline in the upcoming years. Interestingly, many of those declining cities remain important migration destinations within their own states (Tuxtla, Xalapa, Oaxaca, Durango, Villahermosa).

Has the US urban academia become in the recent mostly YIMBY? Or is the neomarxist decommodification of housing side still relevant?

Today’s public hearing featured an old German lady (architect) who lives in the Historic Center. Firstly, she complained about gentrification caused by Airbnb and land-hoarding foreigners. Later, we learned she owned an ADU as Airbnb. She left happy when she realized we upzoned her 60,000sqft parcel

Mexican planners will talk hours about the lack of investment in Mexico’s rundown historic centers; and then argue that refurbishing old houses into Airbnbs is bad.

A municipality organized a public hearing for an upzoning at noon when it’s 38º, so nobody would show up. Based 🥵

Had a meeting with a state department of planning; they want to enforce an urban feasibility approval so they can levy development in the state.

Least Left-wing Latin American housing scholar.

Nowhere close to Panama.

I am familiar with. The high rises are very recent. But most of the city is single family zoned.

Mexican states and local governments are poor and don’t like levying taxes, so they compete for the developers’ money.

In the Mexican context, the states are the ones limiting local governments from building housing.

Just heard one of Mexico's leading urban academics complaining how Condesa has lost its residential designation because of Airbnb. The anti Airbnb sentiment will always ignore that the majority of residential conversions are informal offices.

Mostly cycling groups, there are surely some in Xalapa.

Spent my week in Oaxaca. Like every Mexican World Heritage Site, it is annoyingly car-centric.

They are gonna ride the Chapultepec Cable Car, visit the 1960s Nonoalco Tlatelolco Complex, and have tacos in a tianguis. Tbf, that’s what I usually do with my Urbanite friends visiting CDMX.