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Nuevo Informe sobre Enfoque en Políticas de Suelo del Instituto Lincoln
Adopción de programas de compra
Octubre 2016, español
Adopción de programas de compra: El caso a favor de una retirada controlada de zonas inundables (Buy-In for Buyouts: The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood Zones) Por Robert Freudenberg, Ellis Calvin, Laura Tolkoff y Dare Brawley Dado el aumento en el nivel del mar, las tormentas más frecuentes y severas, y otros riesgos del […]
Octubre 2016, español
Adopción de programas de compra: El caso a favor de una retirada controlada de zonas inundables (Buy-In for Buyouts: The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood Zones) Por Robert Freudenberg, Ellis Calvin, Laura Tolkoff y Dare Brawley Dado el aumento en el nivel del mar, las tormentas más frecuentes y severas, y otros riesgos del […]
Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition
Volume 1: Areas and Densities
Octubre 2016, inglés
This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015.
Octubre 2016, inglés
This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015.
Octubre 2016, inglés
Message from the President
The Road to El Dorado
Octubre 2016, inglés
This month, like conquistadors of centuries past, tens of thousands of us will ascend the Andes to Quito, Ecuador, in search of El Dorado. But, unlike our brutal and greedy predecessors, we are not pursuing metallic wealth beyond our wildest dreams. The golden city we seek promises a sustainable urban future. Our map—the New Urban […]
Octubre 2016, inglés
This month, like conquistadors of centuries past, tens of thousands of us will ascend the Andes to Quito, Ecuador, in search of El Dorado. But, unlike our brutal and greedy predecessors, we are not pursuing metallic wealth beyond our wildest dreams. The golden city we seek promises a sustainable urban future. Our map—the New Urban […]
City Tech
Open Reblock Land Readjustment App
Octubre 2016, inglés
Land readjustment is a vital but difficult and time-consuming process: formulating a sort of retroactive version of planning in neighborhoods that developed informally, with unsanctioned dwellings chaotically built in ways that leave some with no access to streets and paths. According to UN-Habitat, 863 million people around the world lived in such settings as of […]
Octubre 2016, inglés
Land readjustment is a vital but difficult and time-consuming process: formulating a sort of retroactive version of planning in neighborhoods that developed informally, with unsanctioned dwellings chaotically built in ways that leave some with no access to streets and paths. According to UN-Habitat, 863 million people around the world lived in such settings as of […]
Precision Conservation
Pinpointing Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay with One-Meter-Resolution GIS
Octubre 2016, inglés
The Chesapeake Bay is a cultural icon, a national treasure, and a natural resource protected by hundreds of agencies, nonprofit organizations, and institutions. Now with unprecedented accuracy, a new ultra-high-resolution digital mapping technology, developed by the Chesapeake Conservancy and supported by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, is pinpointing pollution and other threats to the […]
Octubre 2016, inglés
The Chesapeake Bay is a cultural icon, a national treasure, and a natural resource protected by hundreds of agencies, nonprofit organizations, and institutions. Now with unprecedented accuracy, a new ultra-high-resolution digital mapping technology, developed by the Chesapeake Conservancy and supported by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, is pinpointing pollution and other threats to the […]
Boundary Issues
The 2016 Atlas of Urban Expansion Indicates Global De-Densification
Octubre 2016, inglés
Cities around the world seem to be stretching out physically and consuming land at a rate that exceeds population growth. As populations double, land use triples. When city growth comes up in public discourse, the conversation almost invariably focuses on population. We speak of “booming” cities that have grown from, say, 2 to 5 million […]
Octubre 2016, inglés
Cities around the world seem to be stretching out physically and consuming land at a rate that exceeds population growth. As populations double, land use triples. When city growth comes up in public discourse, the conversation almost invariably focuses on population. We speak of “booming” cities that have grown from, say, 2 to 5 million […]
WPA 2.0
Beauty, Economics, Politics, and the Creation of New Public Infrastructure
Octubre 2016, inglés
This feature is adapted from Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning, edited by Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, November 2016). During the past 400 years, the land known as the United States of America has been transformed by massive public and […]
Octubre 2016, inglés
This feature is adapted from Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning, edited by Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, November 2016). During the past 400 years, the land known as the United States of America has been transformed by massive public and […]
