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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽

@tamaravelasquez.bsky.social
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Urbanist. PhD student at Rutgers University. Researching gentrification in CDMX. Fluent in Spanglish.// Urbanista, Doctorante en Estudios Urbanos, Chilanga en Brooklyn. Estudio temas de gentrificación en CDMX.

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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Just published my latest paper on short-term rentals and transnational gentrification in CDMX in RSA Regional Studies journal! Read below www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z66E8...
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Short-term rentals and transnational gentrification in Mexico City: a mixed-methods approximation
This paper contributes to a growing body of scholarly literature on the regulation and impact of short-term rentals in the Global South more broadly, and Latin America more specifically, by examini...
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The highlight of my travels this summer was going to Copenhagen: a 19th century theme park right in the main square, gorgeous canals, squatter artist communities on islands, stunning gardens and neighborhoods built out of shipping containers add up to the coolest city I’ve been to!
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I’ve noticed that 2000s indie rock has become the soundtrack to non places: airport lounges, hotel lobbies, etc. Funny how sounds that felt so countercultural in our youth have filled the role of muzak/Kenny G in 2026.
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
So great to connect with other urban researchers from Latin America at the LACUA meeting at the @uaanews.bsky.social ICUA conference!
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Also, the talk radio host is obviously jealous of Mayor Wilson being able to live close to work and not drive. I’ve long argued that part of the hatred towards biking, transit, and urbanism stems from suburban car commuters being jealous of the lifestyle we have because driving in traffic sucks
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Now, imagine if a mayor or state legislator vowed to spend billions of taxpayer dollars on expanding a freeway they drive on daily. Would the media frame that as a scandal?
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Chicago bound! On my way to the @uaanews.bsky.social ICUA 2026 conference. Excited to present my research on digital nomads and gentrification in CDMX.
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Tfw, they are currently blasting Timbiriche at a White People Hipster Cafe in Brooklyn. Osea, ¿Cómo?
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Universal Law Of Cities — The more car-friendly a place is, the shittier it is to be there. Via #NotJustBikes. Watch his new video below.
Text is same as in the post.
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The new @leder.games Root expansion came in the mail. Loving the clever mechanics these new factions introduce to the game!
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
My PhD program is looking for applicants. Great, fully funded opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary urban research and scholarship!
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
what this story demonstrates is that even someone "just" using LLMs like ChatGPT for writing/research etc is still vulnerable to being sucked into a whirlpool of dangerous lies and delusions. So, once again, WHY are schools and universities telling students, staff and faculty to use this?
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Cómo alguien que organizó su despedida de soltera en el Caribbean Social Club, sí me emocionó ver a Toñita en el Súper Tazón.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Appreciating that there is now a @foodcoop.bsky.social branded beer!
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Of course I am using photos of the Nordelta capybaras for the Gated Communities slideshow in the LatAm Cities course I teach. I mean, why would I not? #MillennialProf
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I do think you (and others) should have been more clear about it, to be honest. I do think urbanists have to be cautious when uplifting Cayala and projects like it, especially given the class dynamics in LatAm. Krier’s design is beautiful for sure. But the project should be seen critically.
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A series of gated streets and an open mall with no public transit access is not a model for walkable, mixed used urbanism. Especially not in the Global South with its high levels of inequality. Building beautiful spaces is ot enough if people can't afford to live in them! (8/8).
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Meanwhile, the commercial streets, "open to everyone", are to the average Guatemalan simply a shopping mall or a theme park. A place to bring the kids to on a day trip. Not a place where people live their lives. And scholarly literature backs this up! (7/?) shs.hal.science/halshs-01735...
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Análisis espacial de Ciudad Cayalá (Guatemala) y Avenida Escazú (Costa Rica): más allá del binarismo clásico
Las mini ciudades son productos inmobiliarios de uso mixto que se han desarrollado en las últimas dos décadas en América Central, en el marco de una tendencia urbanística de corte neoliberal y con fuerte inversión extranjera y regional. En Guatemala se desarrolla ciudad Cayalá. Es un proyecto por etapas que incluye un paseo comercial y diversos barrios residenciales. Por su parte, el caso costarricense presenta múltiples ejemplos de los cuales se tomará avenida Escazú. Una avenida comercial con espacios residenciales en sus niveles superiores. Ambos proyectos presentan una tipología que emula una mini ciudad con espacios abiertos para ocio, variedad de ofertas de restauración, entretenimiento, trabajo y residencia. Inscrito dentro del discurso de la geografía urbana, este artículo identifica una simultaneidad espacial que invita a pensar las dinámicas urbanas más allá del binarismo clásico. Se proponen diversas aproximaciones a partir de los aportes de Baudrillard (2016), Foucault (1984), Hannigan (1998) y Soja (2000) con el objetivo de abordar el complejo análisis espacial de estas tipologías hibridadas.
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Krier seemed shocked that the first thing the wealthy residents did when it was all built was to install gates and private security in residential streets! Which is why I include this discussion in our unit for gated communities. (6/?).
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
...It is a fully private development. Essentially a gated community without gates (at least at first). And it is clear that Krier, when he was brought on, had little knowledge from his European planning background on the stark socio-spacial segregation that plays out in LatAm cities. (5/?).
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
-Are informal vendors allowed to operate in Cayalá? There is, as far as I am aware, not a lot of scholarly literature researching Cayalá yet, but these are all pressing questions and food for thought. From what I have read, Cayalá was envisioned as an enclave for the rich...(4/?).
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Without me prompting this, some of the things that students bring up up (which relate to other things we look at in class) are: -Can people who work in Cayalá actually afford to live there? -Is there public/affordable housing? -Why is there no public transit in Cayalá? (3/?)
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
So, I teach a class on urban policy in LatAm, and one of the case studies we look at is Cayalá. I have the students read a NYTimes article and watch the Aesthetic City video on it. I then have them give me questions and comments about it in the seminar. (2/?)
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I've been seeing a lot of Cayalá discourse on YIMBY social media from folks like @thetransitguy.com and others. As a LatAm urbanist, I just want to caution against romanticizing a place like Cayalá with a thread. (1/?)
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Sam “The Great Pumpkin” Thielman @samthielman.com · 22/01/2026
I just thought everyone should see this
Dr Kareem Carr
man: i wish to publish
@kareem_carr
Jan 21
reviewer 2: your paper is no good
man: i'll do anything to improve
reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini
man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini
Andre Pagliarini
@apagliar
Jan 21
a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini
Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC
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Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Experts warn of threat to democracy from ‘AI bot swarms’ infesting social media
Misinformation technology could be deployed at scale to disrupt 2028 US presidential election, AI researchers say
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
PhD here, built a website with other PhDs devoted to organizing PhDs and future well respected people to criticize and comprehend kleptomaniac grifter plagiarist incapacitating machine against-a-i.com
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI -
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Bien merecido. Fue la mejor cinta del año y una de las mejores películas que he visto.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 07/01/2026
“It was clear that Texas A&M’s new policies were going to lead to conflicts with the 1st Amendment. That the first such conflict involves telling a professor to remove from his syllabus the writings of who created what was arguably the west’s first institution of higher ed is too perfect an irony.”
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Texas A&M Bans Plato (updated) - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Cautiously optimistic here. However, this should also extend to multi-family units.
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Great interview with @mcmansionhell.bsky.social on the Know Your Enemy podcast on the role of architecture and aesthetics in the modern US: open.spotify.com/episode/3ids...
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UNLOCKED: Trump's Big, Beautiful Ballroom (w/ Kate Wagner)
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Roopika Risam @roopikarisam.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Increasingly convinced that ChatGPT should be shut down and its CEO should be charged as an accessory to many, many crimes.
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Financialization on steroids
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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Oh god Google Scholar has an AI search function now. I don't fucking want it. Does anyone remember how printed citation indexes worked in case we need them again?
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
Trekked from Brooklyn to Manhattan and back in the middle of a snowstorm because I won discount rush tickets to #SpellingBee. To my surprise, it was packed despite the terrible weather. Overall, a delightful, hilarious show and worth the journey.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
finally started Pluribus. many thoughts, chief among which is: find you somebody that loves you like Vince Gilligan loves Albuquerque
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’ve had to warn students to not use it for citation management and tell them to use the university library portal instead. One such case even cited a nonexistent paper written by me!
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Did you watch the fall of the PRI documentary series on Vix yet? I’m dying to watch
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
This is actually a good example of why the customer model is wrong. I wouldn't have chosen poetry writing, but UNC made me take a class. And it absolutely made me become a much better writer, with an eye to concision and an ear now trained to the rhythm of words. I'm a better historian as a result.
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Excuse me while I go and dunk my head in a bucket of snow magazine.utoronto.ca/research-ide...
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Teaching in the Age of AI | U of T Magazine - U of T Magazine
As machine learning reshapes higher education, U of T is preparing students to become ‘super humans’ Read More
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Me after finally getting to try the pastries/food/coffee at Vato after all of Park Slope has been endlessly lining up for them:
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Hay muchas cosas que son nefastas: el tráfico, la contaminación, es carísima…pero tiene su magia en algunas partes. Los parques, los museos, el centro histórico, Coyoacán. En fin, es fea en mucho pero también tiene cosas lindas.
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
For a PhD grant application? I would hope so!
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Cuando trabajaba en Roma-Condesa era posible comprar un café en un lugar fresón por 30 pesos y las cafeterías independientes eran menos caras que las de cadena. Ahora esas cafeterías son igual de caras que en Brooklyn y el café cuesta casi 100. #gentrificacion #cdmx
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/10/2025
Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.
bbc.co.uk
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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Tamara Velasquez🇲🇽 @tamaravelasquez.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Once again, I find myself meal prepping and the @foodcoop.bsky.social produce did a lot of the heavy lifting in making sure the food was flavorful and delicious!
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