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1. 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...

2. Land Matters Podcast: Confronting Extreme Heat in Africa: A Conversation with the Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Dezembro 2022
   By Anthony Flint, December 12, 2022

   The mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, discusses appointing Africa’s first chief heat officer, fighting climate change with land use planning, and overhauling the property tax system to ensure fiscal sustinability.

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. A Global Perspective on Land Use Regulations and Housing Outcomes

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Cynthia Goytia and Eric J. Heikkila

   This paper examines the relationship between land use regulations and housing outcomes, especially housing affordability and informality. Using a unique and important database of 191 metropolitan...

5. Case Study: Community Toilets and the Challenge of Urban Sanitation in Nairobi, Kenya

   Outro
   Outubro 2018
   Carlos Rufín and Johann Frield

   The case focuses on the growth of community toilets in Nairobi’s sprawling informal settlements.

6. Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad

   Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling Conditions
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Janeiro 2020
   Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa Ibrahim

   This paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in...

7. 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...

8. 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...

9. 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.

10. The Challenge of Slum Formation in the Developing World

    Revista Land Lines
    Abril 2007
    Claudio Acioly Jr.

    A flourishing informal market already provides housing alternatives for both poor and middle-class families in many cities where access to land is constrained in the urban core and is held privately...