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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. Hydraulic Empire

   Sharing a Legacy, Carving a Future for the Colorado River
   Revista Land Lines
   Dezembro 2018
   By Allen Best

   In its sheer complexity, the Colorado stands out among the rivers of America, and probably the world. Explore the twists and turns of this 1,450-mile waterway, which lead from the snowy mountains of...

3. Colorado River Water

   The Shift from Farms to Cities
   Revista Land Lines
   Dezembro 2018
   By Allen Best

   Until recent decades, agriculture was the main driver of development along the Colorado River. But with population growth, water use has shifted to urban needs, with implications for water-sharing...

4. City Tech

   Precision-Mapping Water in the Desert
   Revista Land Lines
   Dezembro 2018
   By Rob Walker, December 14, 2018

   Officials are assessing how precision mapping tools—first developed to understand pollution in the Chesapeake Bay—can help manage drought and, yes, flooding in Arizona’s desert...

5. 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...

6. 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...

7. 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...

8. 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...

9. Grow with the Flow

   How Planners in Two Western Cities Are Integrating Water and Land Use
   Revista Land Lines
   Novembro 2018
   By Kathleen McCormick, November 27, 2018

   In the face of a multiyear drought and the uncertainty of climate change, planning for the future availability of water in the arid and rapidly urbanizing southwestern United States has taken on a...

10. Keystone Water and Growth Dialogue

    Revista Land Lines
    Novembro 2018
    By Kathleen McCormick

    As communities throughout the Colorado River Basin confront the realities of operating in a water-constrained world, a wide-ranging group of stakeholders in the state of Colorado has come together to...