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Urban Sprawl and Land Regulation in Latin America
March 2001, English
Urban sprawl has generated many studies, discussions and policies in the United States, but in Latin America the expansion of large cities has received relatively little attention, even though very large and rapidly growing cities are a widely recognized characteristic of the region. Several reasons may explain this disparity: the belated urbanization process in most […]
March 2001, English
Urban sprawl has generated many studies, discussions and policies in the United States, but in Latin America the expansion of large cities has received relatively little attention, even though very large and rapidly growing cities are a widely recognized characteristic of the region. Several reasons may explain this disparity: the belated urbanization process in most […]
Tierra vacante en ciudades latinoamericanas
March 2001, Spanish
March 2001, Spanish
February 2001, English
Land Lines, January 2001
January 2001, English
January 2001, English
Farming Inside Cities
January 2001, English
When people think of growing food in the United States, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of vegetable and fruit tree farms in California’s Central Valley, golden fields of wheat in the Plains states, and cows grazing on verdant rural landscapes in the Midwest and New England. Rarely is the image one […]
January 2001, English
When people think of growing food in the United States, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of vegetable and fruit tree farms in California’s Central Valley, golden fields of wheat in the Plains states, and cows grazing on verdant rural landscapes in the Midwest and New England. Rarely is the image one […]
Mercados de suelos residenciales disfuncionales
Las colonias de Texas
January 2001, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Un mecanismo creciente de producción de suelo y vivienda en los Estados Unidos lo constituyen las subdivisiones comunitarias automanejadas de bajos recursos, denominadas “colonias” en Texas. En un […]
January 2001, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Un mecanismo creciente de producción de suelo y vivienda en los Estados Unidos lo constituyen las subdivisiones comunitarias automanejadas de bajos recursos, denominadas “colonias” en Texas. En un […]
Dysfunctional Residential Land Markets
Colonias in Texas
January 2001, English
Low-income, self-managed homestead subdivisions, called colonias in Texas, are a rapidly expanding form of land and housing production in the United States. In a recently completed Lincoln Institute-supported study, I have analyzed the dysfunctional aspects of these land markets as measured by a high level of absentee lot ownership, modest lot and property transactions and […]
January 2001, English
Low-income, self-managed homestead subdivisions, called colonias in Texas, are a rapidly expanding form of land and housing production in the United States. In a recently completed Lincoln Institute-supported study, I have analyzed the dysfunctional aspects of these land markets as measured by a high level of absentee lot ownership, modest lot and property transactions and […]
Presupuesto participativo y políticas de poderes en Porto Alegre
January 2001, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 6 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En octubre del año 2000, los ciudadanos de casi la mitad de las 60 principales ciudades brasileñas, agraviados por décadas de pobreza y ola delictiva, además de pésimos […]
January 2001, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 6 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En octubre del año 2000, los ciudadanos de casi la mitad de las 60 principales ciudades brasileñas, agraviados por décadas de pobreza y ola delictiva, además de pésimos […]
