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1. How Infrastructure Shapes Cities

   Revista Land Lines
   Julho 2022
   By José Gómez-Ibáñez, Zhi Liu, July 28, 2022

   Decisions about infrastructure investments often have strong and long-lasting implications for the built environment. This relationship is the subject of two chapters in Infrastructure Economics and Policy: International Comparisons, a recently published

2. The Destiny of Density

   Affordability, Equity, and the Impacts of an Insidious Virus
   Revista Land Lines
   Junho 2020
   By Anthony Flint, June 24, 2020

   COVID-19 has thrust density into the spotlight, with critics and advocates rushing to debate its merits. But a closer look reveals the far more complicated issues powering this pandemic: overcrowding...

3. Harnessing Technology to Accelerate Land Protection

   GIS at The Trust for Public Land
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2019
   Will Rogers

   By developing and using sophisticated mapping and spatial analysis tools, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has been able to dramatically increase its effectiveness in delivering its land-for-people...

4. Revitalizing America’s Smaller Legacy Cities

   Strategies for Postindustrial Success from Gary to Lowell
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Agosto 2017
   Torey Hollingsworth and Alison Goebel

   “The Revitalizing America's Smaller Legacy Cities: Strategies for Postindustrial Success from Gary to Lowell report has been a great resource I have used throughout the process of forming a...

5. Reinventing Development Regulations

   Livros
   Outubro 2017
   Jonathan Barnett and Brian W. Blaesser

   “Many writers have identified the deficiencies in traditional zoning and regulatory frameworks in the United States, but Jonathan Barnett and Brian Blasser offer solutions that tweak and bend...

6. The State of the Streets

   New Findings from the Atlas of Urban Expansion – 2016 Edition
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   Patrick Lamson-Hall, Shlomo Angel, and Yang Liu

   Relatively little is known about the spatial organization of streets and roads in the world’s cities, the differences that exist across cities, or the differences that have emerged within...

7. Urban Expansion in a Global Sample of Cities, 1990 – 2014

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   Alejandro M. Blei, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Nicolás Galarza, Achilles Kallergis, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Yang Liu, and Jason Parent

   Using a 200-city sample that was carefully selected to represent the universe of 4,231 cities in in 2010, we generated measures of cities’ areas and populations at three points in time over a...

8. Accuracy Assessment and Map Comparisons for Monitoring Urban Expansion

   The Atlas of Urban Expansion and the Global Human Settlements Layer
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   Alejandro M. Blei, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Yang Liu, and Xinyue Zhang

   The availability of global high-resolution built-up area datasets provides researchers and policy makers a tool for monitoring progress on a number of sustainable development targets. These datasets...

9. Housing Affordability in a Global Perspective

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   Achilles Kallergis, Shlomo Angel, Yang Liu, Alejandro M. Blei, Nicolás Galarza, and Patrick Lamson-Hall

   This paper discusses housing affordability in cities the world over based on data from the Land and Housing Survey in a Global Sample of Cities. We report on the composition of the housing sector...

10. Urban-Suburban Interdependencies

    Livros
    Março 2000
    Edited by Rosalind Greenstein and Wim Wiewel

    This volume captures work by policy analysts and researchers in urban and regional planning, political science, economics, and related fields. By looking at issues such as economic interdependencies...