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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. 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...

3. 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...

4. 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...

5. 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...

6. 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...

7. 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-...

8. What Drives Neighborhood Revival?

   Qualitative Research Findings from Baltimore and St. Louis
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Outubro 2018
   Alan Mallach and Karen Beck Pooley

   We conduct a case study of neighborhood revival in St. Louis and Baltimore, two legacy cities showing both significant signs of revival along with persistent poverty and neighborhood distress....

9. Predicting Municipal Fiscal Distress

   Aspiration or Reality?
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2018
   Tracy Gordon

   Cities are where people come together to work, live, and thrive. Cities also face a host of fiscal challenges, many of which were laid bare in the Great Recession. Given these challenges,...

10. CePACs and Their Value Capture Viability in the U.S. for Infrastructure Funding

    Documentos de Trabalho
    Setembro 2018
    Julie Kim

    CePAC is an innovative market-based land value capture tool used successfully in São Paulo, Brazil. By monetizing land-use entitlements through up-zoning, it generates significant revenues for...