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Economic Development
Vermont Attempts a Kinder, Gentler TIF—But Will it Work?
August 2019, English
Vermont has enacted some of the nation’s tightest restrictions on tax increment financing, a common economic development tool with a less-than-stellar track record. Can these guardrails make TIF work?
August 2019, English
Vermont has enacted some of the nation’s tightest restrictions on tax increment financing, a common economic development tool with a less-than-stellar track record. Can these guardrails make TIF work?
Climate Resilience
Seattle Utility, Housing Groups Launch Bold Experiment in Climate Equity
August 2019, English
In 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared Seattle’s lower Duwamish River, a major industrial waterway flowing into Puget Sound, a Superfund Site. Later studies of health outcomes for the adjacent low-income South Park and Georgetown neighborhoods confirmed what residents had known for years — in a city known for its commitment to […]
August 2019, English
In 2001, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declared Seattle’s lower Duwamish River, a major industrial waterway flowing into Puget Sound, a Superfund Site. Later studies of health outcomes for the adjacent low-income South Park and Georgetown neighborhoods confirmed what residents had known for years — in a city known for its commitment to […]
Global Urbanization
Learning From China's Explosive Urban Growth
August 2019, English
Over the past four decades, more than 500 million people have moved from rural China to the nation’s cities, drawn by economic opportunities unavailable in the countryside. Today, 60 percent of the population lives in urban areas, compared to just 18 percent in 1978. The rapid, often uncoordinated urban growth caused by this massive […]
August 2019, English
Over the past four decades, more than 500 million people have moved from rural China to the nation’s cities, drawn by economic opportunities unavailable in the countryside. Today, 60 percent of the population lives in urban areas, compared to just 18 percent in 1978. The rapid, often uncoordinated urban growth caused by this massive […]
Are Land Use and Development Changes Associated with Value Capture as a Result of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Investments?
A Longitudinal Land Parcel Data Analysis of the First Phase of the BRT System in Bogota, Colombia
August 2019, English
August 2019, English
Taxes and Economic Development
An Update on the State of the Economics Literature
August 2019, English
August 2019, English
Agentes económicos en el mercado del suelo urbano de Santiago de Chile, período 2010–2015
Aportes a la discusión pública
August 2019, Spanish
August 2019, Spanish
Mensaje del presidente
Restituir a la naturaleza a su debido lugar
July 2019, Spanish
“El hombre es una epidemia, destruye el medioambiente del que depende y sentencia su propia extinción”. Al dirigirse a una multitud de 30.000 personas en el parque Fairmount, de Filadelfia, durante la primera manifestación del Día de la Tierra, en 1970, Ian McHarg, escritor y arquitecto paisajista, no midió sus palabras. Su discurso […]
July 2019, Spanish
“El hombre es una epidemia, destruye el medioambiente del que depende y sentencia su propia extinción”. Al dirigirse a una multitud de 30.000 personas en el parque Fairmount, de Filadelfia, durante la primera manifestación del Día de la Tierra, en 1970, Ian McHarg, escritor y arquitecto paisajista, no midió sus palabras. Su discurso […]
Introducción
Proyectar en el Antropoceno
July 2019, Spanish
En 1969, Ian L. McHarg, profesor de planificación y arquitectura paisajística de la Universidad de Pensilvania, publicó un manifiesto llamado Design with Nature (Proyectar con la naturaleza). Este se tradujo al chino, el francés, el italiano, el japonés y el español, y hoy se sigue imprimiendo. Podría decirse que es el libro más importante […]
July 2019, Spanish
En 1969, Ian L. McHarg, profesor de planificación y arquitectura paisajística de la Universidad de Pensilvania, publicó un manifiesto llamado Design with Nature (Proyectar con la naturaleza). Este se tradujo al chino, el francés, el italiano, el japonés y el español, y hoy se sigue imprimiendo. Podría decirse que es el libro más importante […]
