{"id":170826,"date":"2025-09-03T17:26:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/?p=170826"},"modified":"2025-09-25T11:06:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T17:06:36","slug":"transnational-gentrification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tecscience.tec.mx\/en\/cities-and-prosperous-communities\/transnational-gentrification\/","title":{"rendered":"Transnational Gentrification and the Impact of Digital Nomads in Mexico City"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In Mexico City’s Condesa neighborhood, those who were born there or have lived there for generations have seen a decline in their quality of life. New tenants are replacing their friends and family, noise and pollution are increasing, and, due to the expansion of restaurants onto the sidewalks, they have less and less space to walk. At the same time, more digital nomads from the Global North are moving there.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In academia, this process is called transnational gentrification<\/strong>: an urban transformation in which the arrival of foreign populations\u2014with greater purchasing power\u2014causes an increase in the cost of living, displacing local residents and changing the identity of the place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Before the pandemic, it was very linked to expats aged 50 and older who were looking for quiet places like San Miguel de Allende to retire,” says David Navarrete<\/a>, a research professor at the University of Guanajuato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following the pandemic and the expansion of remote work, the profile of foreigners arriving, as well as their destination, has changed: they are now young, working-age people living in large cities in countries in the Global South.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a recent study<\/a>, Navarrete, Ryan Whitney<\/a> and Aleksandra Krstikj<\/a>, research professors at the School of Architecture, Art and Design<\/a> (EAAD) of the Monterrey Institute of Technology, analyzed this phenomenon in central \u200b\u200bMexico City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe studied the Hip\u00f3dromo, Condesa, Roma Norte, and Roma Sur<\/strong> neighborhoods because we think they offer what digital nomads typically want,\u201d says Krstikj.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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