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1. Is Infrastructure Finance Such a Big Headache?

   Revista Land Lines
   Junio 2022
   By José Gómez-Ibáñez, Zhi Liu, June 29, 2022

   Building and maintaining infrastructure is notoriously expensive, and governments often struggle to cover those costs. But emerging, innovative approaches to financing can help, explain the editors of the Lincoln Institute book "Infrastructure Economics a

2. The State of the Streets

   New Findings from the Atlas of Urban Expansion – 2016 Edition
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Patrick Lamson-Hall, Shlomo Angel, and Yang Liu

   Relatively 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...

3. Urban Expansion in a Global Sample of Cities, 1990 – 2014

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Alejandro M. Blei, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Nicolás Galarza, Achilles Kallergis, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Yang Liu, and Jason Parent

   Using 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...

4. Housing Affordability in a Global Perspective

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Achilles Kallergis, Shlomo Angel, Yang Liu, Alejandro M. Blei, Nicolás Galarza, and Patrick Lamson-Hall

   This 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...

5. After Great Disasters

   An In-Depth Analysis of How Six Countries Managed Community Recovery
   Libros
   Junio 2017
   Laurie A. Johnson and Robert B. Olshansky

   “The book is an important contribution to the practice of recovery and reconstruction. The lessons emerging from these case studies bring clarity to the complex recovery processes and provide...

6. After Great Disasters

   How Six Countries Managed Community Recovery
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Julio 2016
   Laurie A. Johnson and Robert B. Olshansky

   “After Great Disasters offers one of the most well-researched accounts of large-scale, post-disaster recovery programs in several countries. The case studies highlight the common strands of...

7. Making Room for a Planet of Cities

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Enero 2011
   Shlomo Angel, with Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, and Alejandro M. Blei

   This report—the precursor to Planet of Cities—provides policy makers and planners with a conceptual framework for understanding urban expansion and provides research-based suggestions for...

8. Global Universities and Urban Development

   Case Studies and Analysis
   Libros
   Marzo 2008
   Edited by Wim Wiewel and David C. Perry

   This book on the role of global universities in urban development, edited by Wim Wiewel and David C. Perry, complements their previous volume on U.S. institutions, The University as Urban Developer:...

9. Nature and Cities

   The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning
   Libros
   Noviembre 2016
   Edited by Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell

   Note: If you are ordering multiple copies of this book, please contact our warehouse by email at lincolnorders@pssc.com or by phone at 877-526-3257 for a shipping quote. “This book overflows...

10. Planeta de ciudades

    Libros
    Junio 2015
    Shlomo Angel

    This book develops a science of global cities to prepare for the coming expansion of the planet's population and questions the main tenets of the Containment Paradigm. It provides planners and...