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1. El escritorio del alcalde

   Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra Leona
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2023
   Por Anthony Flint

   La alcaldesa Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr asumió su cargo en Freetown, Sierra Leona, en mayo de 2018, después de desempeñarse como jefa del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Freetown. La profesional de las...

2. Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2022
   By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022

   Freetown, Sierra Leone, is one of seven cities around the world that have appointed chief heat officers as part of a global effort to invest in a climate-resilient future. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr...

3. Providing Affordable Home Ownership Opportunities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2021
   Larissa Larsen and Kumelachew Yeshitela

   The City Administration of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has engaged in an extensive public effort to build owner-occupied housing to meet the needs of low- and moderate-income residents. By comparing the...

4. Opportunity Clusters

   The Twin Cities Case Study
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2021
   Andrew Guthrie, Yingling Fan, and Greg Lindsey

   Minnesota’s Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (TCMA), which includes Minneapolis and Saint Paul, presents a confounding example of overall regional prosperity marred by racial disparities in income...

5. Addressing Inequality through Bold Spatial Interventions

   The Case of the Corridors of Freedom in Johannesburg, South Africa
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2021
   Philip Harrison, PhD and Margot Rubin, PhD

   In 2016, UN Habitat ranked Johannesburg the most unequal large city in the world. Although extreme in international terms, and particular for its apartheid history, experiences from Johannesburg...

6. Santiago de Chile

   Breaking through Urban and Social Inequality with Inclusionary Housing
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2021
   Isabel Brain and Francisco Sabatini

   Chile’s housing policy has efficiently addressed the housing needs of the country’s most vulnerable populations; today, its housing deficit is the lowest in Latin America. The downside of...

7. Desegregation Plans and Social Rehabilitation Programs as Tools to Counteract Socio-spatial Segregation in Budapest

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2021
   Éva Gerőházi, Eszter Somogyi and Iván Tosics

   This case study presents the contribution of a complex planning tool (desegregation plan) and a complex intervention (social rehabilitation) to the alleviation of socio-spatial segregation in...

8. Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad

   Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling Conditions
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2020
   Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa Ibrahim

   This paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in...

9. Place Database

   Contest Winners Use Maps to Tell Stories of Place
   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2019
   By Emma Zehner, November 15, 2019

   The winning projects from The Place Database Contest explored complex policy questions related to climate mitigation, affordable housing, and sprawl. The contest asked participants to use The Place...

10. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

    Volume 2: Blocks and Roads
    Otro
    Octubre 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...