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1. How Auctioning Building Rights Can Help Fund Infrastructure and Affordable Housing

   Revista Land Lines
   Dezembro 2018
   By Will Jason, December 14, 2018

   As U.S. cities struggle to provide adequate infrastructure and affordable housing, many are underutilizing one of their greatest assets: the land on which they sit. They can look to an unlikely place...

2. Mensaje del presidente

   Cómo transplantar las innovaciones en materia urban
   Revista Land Lines
   Março 2017
   Por George W. McCarthy

   Cuando organizamos reuniones en América Latina, a veces contratamos intérpretes simultáneos para que aquellos de nosotros que poseemos un limitado conocimiento del idioma español podamos seguir la...

3. Message from the President

   Transplanting Urban Innovation
   Revista Land Lines
   Fevereiro 2017
   By George W. McCarthy

   When we organize meetings in Latin America, we sometimes hire simultaneous translators to allow those of us with limited proficiency in Spanish to follow the conversation. These translators are a...

4. Mensaje del presidente

   Hacia una teoría de la evolución urbana
   Revista Land Lines
   Julho 2016
   By George W. McCarthy

   En su ensayo de 1937, “¿Qué es una ciudad?”, Lewis Mumford describió un proceso evolutivo mediante el cual la “ciudad populosa mal organizada” evolucionaría hasta alcanzar un nuevo tipo de ciudad “de...

5. Message from the President

   Toward a Theory of Urban Evolution
   Revista Land Lines
   Julho 2016
   By George W. McCarthy

   In his 1937 essay “What is a City?,” Lewis Mumford described an evolutionary process through which the “badly organized mass city” would evolve into a new type of “poly-nucleated” city, “adequately...

6. Housing Policies and Urban Development

   Lessons from the Latin American Experience, 1960–2010
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2015
   Eduardo Rojas

   Access and opportunity are tied in many different ways to location. One’s neighborhood and neighbors can have dramatic effects on health and political, socioeconomic, and education opportunities and...

7. Socioeconomic Segregation Between Schools in the United States and Latin America, 1970–2012

   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2015
   Anna K. Chmielewski and Corey Savage

   In this paper, Anna K. Chmielewski and Corey Savage examine school data to compare socioeconomic segregation in the United States and Latin America. They link trends in inequality and segregation in...

8. Residential Histories, Geography of Opportunities, and Educational Achievement in the City of Santiago

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2014
   Carolina Flores

   This paper explores a fascinating international example of innovation in school choice. In 1980, Chile implemented a universal education voucher. This makes Santiago, a city that exhibits a high...

9. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Maio 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

10. Metropolitan Governance and Finance in São Paulo

    Artigos de Conferências
    Abril 2013
    Deborah L. Wetzel

    With a population of 11.2 million residents, São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere, and the world’s seventh largest city by population. The city is...