New and Old #210

Friday roundup and commentary

Emergent Guatemala City, The YIMBY City Planner, M. Nolan Gray, April 6, 2025

This is a great observational piece about Guatemala City, which is apparently growing and developing rapidly. The part that really stuck out to me was this:

This sort of transformation would be unthinkable in the U.S., where our most affluent neighborhoods are closed off to new …