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1. Boston’s Open Space and Sea Level Rise

   An Assessment of the Role of Open Spaces in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change-Related Sea Level Rise and Flooding
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2018
   Ellen M. Douglas, Emily Moothart, and Gerard Cogliano

   Boston, Massachusetts is vulnerable to a number of climate change impacts, the most certain of which are sea level rise (SLR) and the resultant coastal flooding. The feasibility of building a storm...

2. Integrating Green Infrastructure Practices into Ongoing Expansion and Management of the Chilean Electrical Transmission Network

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2018
   Daniela Martínez Gutiérrez

   The energy revolution that Chile is experiencing due to the massive incorporation of variable renewable energy to its energy matrix creates an environmental paradox. The greener our energy is getting...

3. The Preservation of Subsidized Housing

   What We Know and Need to Know
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   Vincent Reina

   There is an abundance of research highlighting the lack of affordable rental housing in the U.S. Given this scarcity, it is all the more important to understand the future of the existing subsidized...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. Green Infrastructure in Patagonia

   Sharing the Recent Chilean Land Conservation Experience with the European Conservation Community
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   Tilmann Disselhoff and Tom Kirschey

   This paper attempts to capture some of the early lessons from the creation of a new National Park Network in Chilean Patagonia. We argue that the National Park Network of Patagonia constitutes green...

7. Harnessing Technology for Land Conservation

   Reflections on the Evolving Role of Geographic Information Services and Technology in Advancing the Land for People Mission of The Trust for Public Land
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   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...

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. America's Middle Neighborhoods

    Setting the Stage for Revival
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Novembro 2018
    Alan Mallach

    In this paper, I attempt to provide a comprehensive framework to encourage thinking about the growing challenges faced by the middle neighborhoods of the nation’s legacy cities and their inner-...