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1. Land Lines, April 2024

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2024
   Edited by Katharine Wroth

   This issue explores cities rethinking street surfaces in response to climate change, factors influencing home buyers to consider climate risk, the work of Seattle's Black Home Initiative to...

2. Exploring Sustainable Development in Latin America

   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 2024
   By Carina Arvizu Machado, May 14, 2024

   Addressing poverty, climate change, and other threats to Latin American settlements

3. Equity in Green Infrastructure

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2024
   Nathaniel R. Mattison and Kyle McKenney

   Many municipalities introduced their first stand-alone green infrastructure (“GI”) plans in the late 2000s and early 2010s, specifically as a means of achieving compliance with water...

4. El futuro de la densidad

   Capacidad de pago, igualdad y los efectos de un virus insidioso
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2020
   Por Anthony Flint, 24 de junio, 2020

   La COVID-19 ha puesto a la densidad en foco; críticos y defensores se apresuran para debatir sus ventajas. Pero un análisis más profundo revela problemas mucho más...

5. The Destiny of Density

   Affordability, Equity, and the Impacts of an Insidious Virus
   Revista Land Lines
   Junio 2020
   By Anthony Flint, June 24, 2020

   COVID-19 has thrust density into the spotlight, with critics and advocates rushing to debate its merits. But a closer look reveals the far more complicated issues powering this pandemic: overcrowding...

6. Agentes económicos en el mercado del suelo urbano de Santiago de Chile, período 2010–2015

   Aportes a la discusión pública
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2019
   Pablo Wainer Infante, Ivo Gasic Klett, and Rodrigo Sánchez Leiva

   Se estudia la formación de reservas de suelo urbano por agentes de intermediación financiera, en especial compañías aseguradoras, y de qué forma dichos agentes econ...

7. Land Conversion and Misallocation Across Cities in China

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2019
   Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu, and Junfu Zhang

   The Chinese government has been using quotas to control the amount of farmland that can be converted for urban uses in different cities every year. Using a sample of more than 1.5 million land-lease...

8. Doing Bad by Doing Good?

   An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban Informality
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe Dorna

   This paper has two different aims. First, we investigate the effects of informal settlements upgrading programs through a systematic review synthesizing the information provided by evaluations of...

9. Mensaje del presidente

   Construir las ciudades que necesitamos
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2019
   Por George W. McCarthy

   Hacia 2050, el 70 por ciento del planeta será urbano: se sumarán unos dos mil millones de residentes a las ciudades de todo el mundo. Si consideramos la historia y el futuro de estas áreas, nuestro...

10. President’s Message

    Building the Cities We Need
    Revista Land Lines
    Abril 2019
    By George W. McCarthy, April 9, 2019

    By 2050, the planet will be 70 percent urban. How will our cities cope with the predicted influx of people—and will they be able to retain some sense of place, or simply yield to global market forces?