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1. 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...

2. 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...

3. 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...

4. 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...

5. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 2: Blocks and Roads
   Outro
   Outubro 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Alejandro M. Blei. and Jason Parent, with Nicolás Galarza Sánchez and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...

6. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 1: Areas and Densities
   Outro
   Outubro 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Alejandro M. Blei, Jason Parent, Patrick Lamson-Hall, and Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, with Daniel L. Civco, Rachel Qian Lei, and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...

7. Land Lines, July 2017

   Revista Land Lines
   Julho 2017

   In this issue: revitalizing America’s smaller legacy cities; GASB 77 and the cost of corporate property tax incentives; the future of U.S. public school revenue from the property tax; and a new initiative that will explore our human ties to land.

8. Underused Lots in New York City

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2009
   Vicki Been, Ingrid Gould Ellen, Josiah Madar, and Simon McDonnell

   Despite a robust real estate market for most of this decade, researchers and policymakers have observed that many areas of New York City have remained built out well below their zoning capacity. This...

9. How Differences in Property Taxes within Cities Affect Urban Sprawl

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2008
   Yan Song and Yves Zenou

   This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between the differentiated property tax within urban areas and urban sprawl in U.S. cities. We first develop a theoretical model in which the...

10. Dar vivienda a los sin techo

    Las ciudades prósperas tratan la crisis de sus calles, que se agrava cada vez más
    Revista Land Lines
    Fevereiro 2019
    Por Kathleen McCormick

    Por primera vez desde 2010, en Estados Unidos aumentó la cantidad de gente sin techo. Debido a esto, las ciudades implementan nuevos enfoques para ofrecerles refugio, como convertir...