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1. City Tech

   20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovators Changing the Urban Landscape
   Libros
   Junio 2024
   By Rob Walker

   This book is currently available for pre-order. It will be published in June 2024. The world is rapidly urbanizing, and experts predict that up to 80 percent of the population will live in cities by...

2. Developing a Quantitative Spatial Economic Model to Evaluate Urban Water Conservation Policies in Denver

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Juan Carlos G. Lopez

   This paper develops a quantitative spatial model for the city of Denver to consider policy proposals to reduce urban water demand using data on land use and water demand by households and business...

3. Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Julio 2023
   By Joseph Schilling, Catherine Tumber, and Gabi Velasco

   Preparing the country for a low-carbon future that is economically and racially just is an enormous undertaking. Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities investigates how local governments in...

4. Understanding the Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Urban Greenspaces

   A green infrastructure approach to healthy behavior and outcome
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2023
   Yizhao Yang, Hong Wu, Dong Li, and Jie Hu

   This paper argues that urban greenspaces’ ultimate health efficacy lies in them working together as a system and as green infrastructure to provide a variety of ecosystem services. This...

5. How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Ernest Cook, Katherine Lyons, Rashail Deminck, Lucia Portman, and Molly McDevitt 

   Land conservation – defined as land protection, restoration and stewardship – can be used to address climate change both by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and by helping human and...

6. China’s Shifting Demographic Geography

   Insights from the 2020 Census
   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2023
   Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei Zhang

   This monograph identifies key changes (trends, abrupt changes) in the 21st Century spatial distribution of the Chinese population, based primarily on absolute and relative changes between the 2010 (...

7. Integrating Land Use and Water Management

   Resúmenes de políticas públicas
   Agosto 2022
   By Erin Rugland

   Land without water cannot support urban form of any scale, yet many land use decisions are made without regard to water, and vice versa. This Policy Brief introduces readers to best management...

8. Land Lines, Julio 2022

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2022
   Editado por Katharine Wroth

   En esta edición especial dedicada al clima, se incluye una investigación del financiamiento con base en el suelo, una descripción general de los nuevos debates sobre migraci...

9. Tecnociudad

   Nuevos enfoques para la contaminación sonora
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2022
   Por Rob Walker

   Los habitantes de ciudades de todo el mundo notaron un efecto secundario sorprendentemente positivo de la etapa de aislamiento de la pandemia: menos ruido. En su mayoría, los paisajes sonoros urbanos...

10. Urban Growth Boundaries for Watershed Health

    Managing the Impacts of Peripheral Land Uses on Water Quantity and Quality
    Documentos de trabajo
    Noviembre 2022
    Lance Gloss

    This working paper considers how the common land use planning tool of establishing Urban Growth Boundaries (UGBs) can better integrate water management. Three case studies and mixed methods research...