Met a planning director opposing upzoning, arguing people in his municipality preferred living in informal settlements without water or sewage before living in apartments 🫠
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Met a planning director opposing upzoning, arguing people in his municipality preferred living in informal settlements without water or sewage before living in apartments 🫠
Shoutout to my Venezuelan friend Estefani from Ciudad Guayana who supported Chavez’s eight star flag because the eighth star was her state.
Guyana City, a midsized city in eastern Venezuela that you've never heard of, has a larger population than the entire nation of Guyana.
November 6, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Shoutout to my Venezuelan friend Estefani from Ciudad Guayana who supported Chavez’s eight star flag because the eighth star was her state.
Crazy how the US electoral system is turning into a race of who’s better at gerrymandering.
Isn't she glorious
November 5, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Crazy how the US electoral system is turning into a race of who’s better at gerrymandering.
My reform to allow for spot zoning in Baja California Sur just got approved by the state congress 🎊
November 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
My reform to allow for spot zoning in Baja California Sur just got approved by the state congress 🎊
Lobbying my first YIMBY state reform, and now I am facing my first NIMBY infographic.
November 4, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Lobbying my first YIMBY state reform, and now I am facing my first NIMBY infographic.
TIL that arabs call it Medina New York 💯
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
TIL that arabs call it Medina New York 💯
Going to Bangkok in a couple of weeks, so I made a Bangkok building height map.
Send Bangkok tips and recommendations!
Send Bangkok tips and recommendations!
November 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Going to Bangkok in a couple of weeks, so I made a Bangkok building height map.
Send Bangkok tips and recommendations!
Send Bangkok tips and recommendations!
It is the only place in LatAm where I have seen higher parking requirements in the city center.
Which makes sense, the rich car owners live in the center, the poor live in the outskirts. 8/10!
Which makes sense, the rich car owners live in the center, the poor live in the outskirts. 8/10!
October 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
It is the only place in LatAm where I have seen higher parking requirements in the city center.
Which makes sense, the rich car owners live in the center, the poor live in the outskirts. 8/10!
Which makes sense, the rich car owners live in the center, the poor live in the outskirts. 8/10!
I know most people think their country has terrible urban planning.
After reading zoning ordinances from every Latin American country and seeing how Mexican cities are the only ones that grow in the most isolated low-density, I don’t think there is worse planning in LatAm.
After reading zoning ordinances from every Latin American country and seeing how Mexican cities are the only ones that grow in the most isolated low-density, I don’t think there is worse planning in LatAm.
October 30, 2025 at 2:58 AM
I know most people think their country has terrible urban planning.
After reading zoning ordinances from every Latin American country and seeing how Mexican cities are the only ones that grow in the most isolated low-density, I don’t think there is worse planning in LatAm.
After reading zoning ordinances from every Latin American country and seeing how Mexican cities are the only ones that grow in the most isolated low-density, I don’t think there is worse planning in LatAm.
Mapping affordable housing in Mexico. Policymakers' disdain to infill development or anything above 4 stories makes affordable housing viable solely in the most remote and inaccessible locations.
October 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Mapping affordable housing in Mexico. Policymakers' disdain to infill development or anything above 4 stories makes affordable housing viable solely in the most remote and inaccessible locations.
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 😖
This year, some of the wealthiest neighborhoods voted to hire lawyers to prtoect exclusionary zoning within their boroughs 😖
October 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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 😖
This year, some of the wealthiest neighborhoods voted to hire lawyers to prtoect exclusionary zoning within their boroughs 😖
Found my first Spanish (language) housing book that avoids the typical leftist NIMBY antifinancialization approach that dominates the Latin American and Spanish housing discourse.
October 26, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Found my first Spanish (language) housing book that avoids the typical leftist NIMBY antifinancialization approach that dominates the Latin American and Spanish housing discourse.
Cute checkboard informal settlement in the ejidos of Eastern Mexico City.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Cute checkboard informal settlement in the ejidos of Eastern Mexico City.
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.
Mexico's first oil town now loses 1.1% of its population annually. The recent floods are just going to accelerate its inevitable decadence.
Residents of Poza Rica, Mexico, continued cleanup efforts following devastating floods that destroyed homes and left streets covered in mud, debris and overturned vehicles.
October 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
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.
Mexico's first oil town now loses 1.1% of its population annually. The recent floods are just going to accelerate its inevitable decadence.
Which would be nice considering Tijuana's highest density is 70 dwellings per acre 😢
October 14, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Which would be nice considering Tijuana's highest density is 70 dwellings per acre 😢
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.
I am curious why Monterrey lacks significant informal settlements compared to other Mexican cities.
October 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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.
I am curious why Monterrey lacks significant informal settlements compared to other Mexican cities.
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.
October 1, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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.
Just like the Soviet Union. Mexican social housing designs are repeated all over the country.
September 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Just like the Soviet Union. Mexican social housing designs are repeated all over the country.
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.
September 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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.
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?
September 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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?
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.
Chiapas's cities likely reflect its exceptional high birth rates.
September 25, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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.
Chiapas's cities likely reflect its exceptional high birth rates.
Merch being sold while the widow spoke is the gringoest thing ever.
September 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Merch being sold while the widow spoke is the gringoest thing ever.
In Monterrey, Lock-off apartments are becoming quite popular. Most new developments offer them.
Probably, a result of low dwelling densities.
Probably, a result of low dwelling densities.
September 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
In Monterrey, Lock-off apartments are becoming quite popular. Most new developments offer them.
Probably, a result of low dwelling densities.
Probably, a result of low dwelling densities.
How do the state-city relations work in the US regarding land use? Isn’t the state meddling in local affairs, like land use, unconstitutional or something?
SB 79 PASSED!
APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!
APARTMENTS NEXT TO ALL RAPID TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA ARE NOW LEGAL! THIS IS HUGE!!!
September 13, 2025 at 12:55 AM
How do the state-city relations work in the US regarding land use? Isn’t the state meddling in local affairs, like land use, unconstitutional or something?