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1. The Costs and Benefits of Urban Expansion

   Evidence from Mexico, 1990–2010
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Março 2019
   Jorge Montejano, Paavo Monkkonen, Erick Guerra, and Camilo Caudillo

   Urbanization is generally linked to economic growth, and agglomeration economies mean that people in larger cities are more productive. However, urban expansion is also associated with congestion,...

2. Distributive Impacts and Support for Mass Transportation Projects

   An Experimental Evaluation in Bogotá, Colombia
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2018
   Alishia C. Holland

   Who supports mass infrastructure projects? Mass transportation infrastructure, such as metros and highways, is hugely expensive. But it also can deliver widespread benefits to users and windfall...

3. Green Infrastructure in Patagonia

   Sharing the Recent Chilean Land Conservation Experience with the European Conservation Community
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Novembro 2018
   Tilmann Disselhoff and Tom Kirschey

   This paper attempts to capture some of the early lessons from the creation of a new National Park Network in Chilean Patagonia. We argue that the National Park Network of Patagonia constitutes green...

4. Case Study: Rhetoric of Recovering Resilient

   Unveiling how Building Back Safer Transforms into Development for Prosperity
   Outro
   Outubro 2018
   Kanako Iuchi

   This case explains how implementing the concept of increasing resilience against natural hazards is much more complicated than how it is rhetorically used in the development world.

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. Taller sobre reajuste de suelo

   Observaciones preliminares
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Abril 2017
   William Doebele

   Este documento es un borrador escrito por el autor para animar la discusión en un taller organizado por el Lincoln Institute of Land Policy y para presentar y orientar las distintas...

7. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 1: Areas and Densities
   Outro
   Outubro 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Alejandro M. Blei, Jason Parent, Patrick Lamson-Hall, and Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, with Daniel L. Civco, Rachel Qian Lei, and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...

8. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 2: Blocks and Roads
   Outro
   Outubro 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Alejandro M. Blei. and Jason Parent, with Nicolás Galarza Sánchez and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...

9. Who Will Be Affected by a Congestion Pricing Scheme in Beijing?

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Setembro 2015
   Joshua Linn, Zhongmin Wang, and Lunyu Xie

   Equity concerns have been an important obstacle to adopting congestion pricing, in both developed and developing countries. However, the existing evidence on the equity effects of congestion pricing...

10. Contribución de valorización o mejoras en Colombia

    Análisis de la experiencia colombiana
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Julho 2014
    Oscar Borrero Ochoa

    Desde 1921 se aplica en Colombia el tributo denominado Contribución de Valorización o Mejoras. Este instrumento financiero lo utilizan todas las ciudades colombianas para financiar su infraestructura...