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As Wars Rage, Cities Face a Dark New Era of Urban Destruction
January 2025, English
While climate change was top of mind at UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum 12, a global summit held in Cairo in November, another driver of urban devastation loomed especially large: intensifying military conflict.
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Housing, Infrastructure, Urbanization
January 2025, English
While climate change was top of mind at UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum 12, a global summit held in Cairo in November, another driver of urban devastation loomed especially large: intensifying military conflict.
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Housing, Infrastructure, Urbanization
Of Potshots and Potholes
Social Media and Urban Infrastructure
By Rob Walker
January 2025, English
A popular citizen-led Instagram account in New Orleans has become part of the city's conversation about infrastructure and planning—could this informal collaboration hold lessons for other urban areas?
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City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure, Technology and Tools
January 2025, English
A popular citizen-led Instagram account in New Orleans has become part of the city's conversation about infrastructure and planning—could this informal collaboration hold lessons for other urban areas?
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure, Technology and Tools
Property Taxes and the Great Recession
The Role of Property Tax Limits
Thomas Brosy and Chiara Ferrero
January 2025, English
Working Paper
Land Markets, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
January 2025, English
Working Paper
Land Markets, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
Storm Surge: How Can Cities and Regions Plan for Climate Relocation?
By Jon Gorey
January 2025, English
As the impacts of climate change intensify, making life inconvenient or intolerable in places more prone to drought, wildfire, or flooding, people will increasingly relocate to safer places. How can communities prepare?
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City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Local Government
January 2025, English
As the impacts of climate change intensify, making life inconvenient or intolerable in places more prone to drought, wildfire, or flooding, people will increasingly relocate to safer places. How can communities prepare?
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City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Local Government
Marejada: ¿Cómo se pueden preparar las ciudades y las regiones para la reubicación climática?
Por Jon Gorey
January 2025, Spanish
A medida que se intensifican los impactos del cambio climático, lo que hace que la vida se vuelva incómoda o intolerable en lugares propensos a la sequía, los incendios forestales o las inundaciones, las personas se reubicarán en búsqueda de seguridad. ¿Cómo se pueden preparar las comunidades para estos cambios de población?
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Local Government
January 2025, Spanish
A medida que se intensifican los impactos del cambio climático, lo que hace que la vida se vuelva incómoda o intolerable en lugares propensos a la sequía, los incendios forestales o las inundaciones, las personas se reubicarán en búsqueda de seguridad. ¿Cómo se pueden preparar las comunidades para estos cambios de población?
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Local Government
Updates on the State of Statewide Housing Policy: New Insights into Implementation and Results
Semida Munteanu, Jenny Schuetz, and Sydney Zelinka
January 2025, English
With US housing prices continuing to rise, state governments are increasingly seeking to address long-term housing affordability issues by pursuing statewide land use reforms that encourage housing production. A new Lincoln Institute Policy Download shares some of the high-level lessons learned from a recent state housing policy convening and recommends ways to make state policies more effective.
Policy Download
Housing
January 2025, English
With US housing prices continuing to rise, state governments are increasingly seeking to address long-term housing affordability issues by pursuing statewide land use reforms that encourage housing production. A new Lincoln Institute Policy Download shares some of the high-level lessons learned from a recent state housing policy convening and recommends ways to make state policies more effective.
Policy Download
Housing
Seven Need-to-Know Trends for Planners in 2025
By Jon DePaolis
January 2025, English
From water scarcity to four-day workweeks, planners are contending with constant change. A new report from the American Planning Association and the Lincoln Institute identifies existing and emerging trends to help planners and others act, prepare, and learn.
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Local Government, Water
January 2025, English
From water scarcity to four-day workweeks, planners are contending with constant change. A new report from the American Planning Association and the Lincoln Institute identifies existing and emerging trends to help planners and others act, prepare, and learn.
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Local Government, Water
Report from Cairo: For Global Cities, Pressures Just Keep Building
January 2025, English
A delegation from the Lincoln Institute traveled to Cairo for UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum, participating in a global conversation about sustainability, urban development, and our shared future.
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Housing, Urbanization
January 2025, English
A delegation from the Lincoln Institute traveled to Cairo for UN-Habitat’s World Urban Forum, participating in a global conversation about sustainability, urban development, and our shared future.
Land Lines Magazine
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Housing, Urbanization
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