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1. Exploring Sustainable Development in Latin America

   Revista Land Lines
   Maio 2024
   By Carina Arvizu Machado, May 14, 2024

   Addressing poverty, climate change, and other threats to Latin American settlements

2. El escritorio del alcalde

   Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra Leona
   Revista Land Lines
   Janeiro 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...

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

   Revista Land Lines
   Novembro 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...

4. Sustainable Development

   Slums, Informal Settlements, and the Role of Land Policy
   Revista Land Lines
   Novembro 2018
   By Will Jason, November 19, 2018

   Slums and informal settlements hold a quarter of the global urban population, and they are absorbing the majority of urban growth in developing regions.

5. Building and Dwelling: A Conversation with Richard Sennett

   Vídeos e Multimídia
   Maio 2018

   Sociologist Richard Sennett discusses his book Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, in which he traces the anguished relationship between how cities are built and how people actually live in them, from ancient Athens to 21st-century Shanghai

6. The Potential of Community Land Trusts in Rio's Favelas

   Vídeos e Multimídia
   Dezembro 2017

   Theresa Williamson of Catalytic Communities (CatComm) in Rio de Janeiro discusses the potential for community land trusts to allow for improvements to informal settlements while protecting affordable housing.

7. Hidden City

   Beijing’s Subterranean Housing Market
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2014
   Annette M. Kim

   More than one million people are living in apartments underground in Beijing. These small, often windowless dwellings are, for many workers, the only affordable housing option near jobs in the city...

8. La ciudad oculta

   El mercado inmobiliario subterráneo de Beijing
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2014
   Annette M. Kim

   Más de un millón de personas viven en apartamentos subterráneos en Beijing. Estas pequeñas viviendas, generalmente sin ventanas, son la única opción de...

9. Vivir en campamentos

   Preferencias de localización residencial en Santiago, Chile
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2009
   Isabel Brain, José Joaquín Prieto, Francisco Sabatini, and Pablo Celhay

   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. En las ciudades de...

10. Living in Slums

    Residential Location Preferences in Santiago, Chile
    Revista Land Lines
    Outubro 2009
    Isabel Brain, Pablo Celhay, José Joaquín Prieto, and Francisco Sabatini

    This study offers a new perspective on the location patterns and preferences of slum households. Underlying the family decision to live in a slum is an interest in increasing the probabilities of...