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Infrastructure and Land Policies
Comunicados de prensaMayo 1, 2013For Immediate ReleaseContact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (April 30, 2013) – The critical importance of infrastructure in global cities – including new strategies in its development,...
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Conserving Biodiversity on South Africa’s Privately-Owned Grasslands
Farmer Experiences with Protected AreasDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2020South Africa’s Biodiversity Stewardship Initiative and Protected Areas Act are programs designed to help protect threatened species and provide other conservation benefits. Private grasslands...
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The State of the Streets
New Findings from the Atlas of Urban Expansion – 2016 EditionDocumentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Patrick Lamson-Hall, Shlomo Angel, and Yang LiuRelatively little is known about the spatial organization of streets and roads in the world’s cities, the differences that exist across cities, or the differences that have emerged within...
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Urban Expansion in a Global Sample of Cities, 1990 – 2014
Documentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Alejandro M. Blei, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Nicolás Galarza, Achilles Kallergis, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Yang Liu, and Jason ParentUsing a 200-city sample that was carefully selected to represent the universe of 4,231 cities in in 2010, we generated measures of cities’ areas and populations at three points in time over a...
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Housing Affordability in a Global Perspective
Documentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Achilles Kallergis, Shlomo Angel, Yang Liu, Alejandro M. Blei, Nicolás Galarza, and Patrick Lamson-HallThis 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...
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Housing Subsidies and Urban Segregation
A Reflection on the Case of South AfricaDocumentos de trabajoJulio 2001Marie HuchzermeyerThis paper was written for and presented at a Lincoln Institute course titled, “International Seminar on Segregation in the City,” held July 26-28, 2001.
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Land, Infrastructure, Housing Costs and Fiscal Impacts Associated with Growth
The Literature on the Impacts of Sprawl versus Managed GrowthDocumentos de trabajoEnero 1995Robert Burchell and David ListokinPlease contact us to request a PDF of this paper. Where? In what form? At what density? These concerns really do matter when analyzing the effects of development on land consumption, infrastructure...
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The Global Reach of Land Trust Organizations
Documentos de trabajoFebrero 2015This paper is a summary of the author’s reflections gained from the many interactions he has had over the past 18 months with land trust practitioners, academics and government agency leaders on...