Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Some Mexican cities these shadow requirements and 0 buildings above 3 stories. 090
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In Mexican law, most of the time, you'll come across an openly classist section. In Quintana Roo, social housing estates cannot be bigger than 90 dwellings. 081
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Made some nicer graphs to show how motorcycle use is increasing in Mexico at the expense of transit. Mexico really sucks at zoning and transit. 3194
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Same for the Mexican case. Motorcycle use is increasing because transit all over the country sucks. 081
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Crazy the debacle of housing production in Mexico City: 2006: 18,000 units 2016: 13,000 units 2025: 2,000 units 1644
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 27/09/2026It has been a mix of Gaddafi’s Green Book and the Cuban Urban Reform. 050
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Writing a report about exclusionary zoning in Mexico City; so I made this cute map of the existing stock vs. the permitted. No surprise this city barely builds anything. 1477
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Spanish discourse rn in X are the most left-NIMBY takes you'll read in your life. 180
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Which cities are Mexico's most attractive ones: Monterrey, Querétaro, Mérida, and the beach resort cities. Which ones are in an imminent decline: Acapulco and the oil dependent cities in the Gulf of Mexico. Source: Intercensal Survey 2025 280
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 19/09/202672 apartments, no parking, in Colonia Escandon downsized to 23 units, 25 parking spaces. The city government and Mexican urban academia love talking about land value capture mechanisms, but hate apartment buildings more. 2264
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026NIMBYism and Mexican Planners incapable of defending the land value capture mechanisms that they strive for, downsized this 33 dwelling project to 9. 0165
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Analyzing hotel land uses and Airbnb demand in Mexico City. Unsurprisingly, hotels are prohibited where people want to stay. 26411
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 13/09/2026One would expect these zoning plans of Mexico City's districts to be outdated. They're not. And these the publicly available versions of the maps. 092
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Fun 9/11 fact: the twin towers were designed by the same guy that designed Pruitt-Igoe. 021
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Does any US state/city require land donations for subdivisions or developments, i.e. the mandatory transfer of land in exchange for development rights? Or it that a Hispanic law thing? 210
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Nice article about the influence and policy mobility of NYC in Mexico City. www.redalyc.org/journal/312/...redalyc.orgTrasplantes complicados. Nueva York en el urbanismo de la Ciudad de MéxicoEl artículo explora el trasplante de ideas urbanísticas de la Ciudad de Nueva York a la Ciudad de México, siguiendo la metodología de la historia urbana y la... 071
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Mexican border cities are really something unique. They’re all ugly tho. 270
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Felt like sharing one of the zoning plans that I do for work. 3161
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Apparently, the guy negotiated some state reforms with the opposition government of the state capital, in exchange for the zoning assessment approval. 030
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The same has been happening since the first Trump presidency in Mexican airports and buses when traveling south to north. Immigration officers looking for Haitians, Venezuelans and Central American. 270
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Well… we upzoned his friends’ land, we are getting the assessment approval next week. 050
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 20/08/2026During the XX century, Latin American cities would openly zone for high-income zones, low-income zones. Now they are less transparent, and zone for high-density, low-density. 070
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Haven't read El Salvador's national parking reform. The country eliminated parking requirements nationwide. 2277
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 15/08/2026The State of Mexico is tendering the Texcoco-La Paz Light Rail. Basically a shit-line that doesn’t connect to any centrality. 280
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Hopefully, one day, Mexico will be as rich as Ecuador, and we’ll have underground bins. 1331
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Funny thing about Mexican cities, they're dense, but in the most counterintuitive way possible. Super dense suburbs, depopulated centers. A market economy with a Soviet urban form. 4142
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The same state government official is delaying the neighboring municipality’s plan because they are governed by the opposing party, and his brother want to run for mayor next year. 091
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 05/08/2026In Mexico, every zoning plan must be reviewed and approved by the state. In theory, this process is intended to ensure that planning is consistent with state-level plans. In practice, states use it as a political tool to obstruct opposition-led municipalities or impose their own planning preferences 2141
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Can you guys guess the Latin American country (or the city) by looking at an informal settlement. 550
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Four Latin American cities, same density: 15,000 inhab/km2. Guess the cities. 5162
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Mexican planners will advocate for the decommodification of housing and land value capture in the same lecture. 0122
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Can you guys guess the Latin American city by looking at the densest square kilometer? 4110
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 01/08/2026One would think this municipality was lobbied by the US Building Council to require a LEED certification for anything above 7 stories. In reality, it's just one more case of a Mexican public official being afraid of infill development and anything above two stories. 2130
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Had a conversation about parking reform in Mexican cities. A left-wing academic opposed it as related it to deregulation, fearing big retail wouldn't provide parking A right-wing official complained small retail created chaos because they lacked parking, but accepted big retail would provide it. 2250
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Google 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. 1162
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Funny how Monterrey's densest neighborhood is a bunch of dingbats. 4265
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Some 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). 260
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Has the US urban academia become in the recent mostly YIMBY? Or is the neomarxist decommodification of housing side still relevant? 171
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Mexican 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. 1100
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A municipality organized a public hearing for an upzoning at noon when it’s 38º, so nobody would show up. Based 🥵 090
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Had a meeting with a state department of planning; they want to enforce an urban feasibility approval so they can levy development in the state. 030
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026In the Mexican context, the states are the ones limiting local governments from building housing. 171
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Just 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. 160
Adrián @elenoam.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Spent my week in Oaxaca. Like every Mexican World Heritage Site, it is annoyingly car-centric. 2181
