Medellin, which has gone from crime capital to poster city for all of Latin America, with its innovations in parks, public space and transportation infrastructure, will host UN-HABITAT's World Urban Forum 7 next month, and a Lincoln Institute delegation will join some 25,000 registered participants, engaged in a wide range of topics from resilience to value capture.
Lincoln Institute-related events include the screenings in the Cinema Room of the short video from the Inkling enhanced ebook version of Made for Walking and the documentary film Making Sense of Place – Phoenix: The Urban Desert; presentations on value capture and resilience by Latin America program director Martim Smolka, Lincoln Institute president Gregory K. Ingram, and senior fellow Armando Carbonell at the Innovative Americas pavillion hosted by The Next City, the Kresge Foundation, and the Ford Foundation; a roundtable, Value Sharing: An International Perspective at the Urban Library; a presentation by visiting fellow and Planet of Cities author Shlomo Angel on the Urban Expansion Initiative; the networking event, Using Land Value Capture Mechanisms for Financing Urban Development in Latin America, with the Getúlio Vargas Foundation; a presentation of a new publication, Instrumentos Notables de Intervención Urbana, with the Banco del Estado del Ecuador; a discussion of The Atlas of Urban Expansion: 2015 edition with Gregory K. Ingram, as part of a special session of Urban Data for the New Urban Agenda; the networking event, Urban planning and Cities Sprawling concerning Risk Management and Evaluation for Disasters, with the Japan International Cooperation Agency; the training workshop, Urban equity outcomes: Enabling policies and tools to access land and housing, with the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies-IHS and UN-Habitat; and the networking event Addressing Urban Environmental Risk in Latin America.
The Policy Focus Report Implementing Value Capture in Latin America: Policy Tools for Urban Development by Martim Smolka will be available at the convening in both English and a recently published version in Spanish -- Implentacion de la recuperacion de plusvalias en America Latina: Politicas e instrumentos para el desarrollo urbano.
An excellent history of the World Urban Forum can be found at The Next City site here.
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