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1. Case Study: The Long Beach, California, Civic Center Project

   A Public-Private Partnership to Rehabilitate Municipal Infrastructure
   Otro
   Diciembre 2020
   Michael Bennon

   This case examines the process and mechanics of using the public-private partnership model to invest in local infrastructure in one U.S. city.

2. Case Study: Community Toilets and the Challenge of Urban Sanitation in Nairobi, Kenya

   Otro
   Octubre 2018
   Carlos Rufín and Johann Frield

   The case focuses on the growth of community toilets in Nairobi’s sprawling informal settlements.

3. Case Study: Rhetoric of Recovering Resilient

   Unveiling how Building Back Safer Transforms into Development for Prosperity
   Otro
   Octubre 2018
   Kanako Iuchi

   This case explains how implementing the concept of increasing resilience against natural hazards is much more complicated than how it is rhetorically used in the development world.

4. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 2: Blocks and Roads
   Otro
   Octubre 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Alejandro M. Blei. and Jason Parent, with Nicolás Galarza Sánchez and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...

5. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 1: Areas and Densities
   Otro
   Octubre 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Alejandro M. Blei, Jason Parent, Patrick Lamson-Hall, and Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, with Daniel L. Civco, Rachel Qian Lei, and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...

6. Monitoring the Share of Land in Streets

   Public Works and the Quality of Global Urban Expansion
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   Shlomo Angel

   Whether it is microhousing for hipsters in Seattle, high-rises for the upwardly mobile in Beijing, or informal settlements on the fringe of Nairobi, the expansion of urban areas is poorly monitored...

7. Transport Costs of School Choice

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Kevin Krizek, Elizabeth Wilson, Ryan Wilson, and Julian Marshall

   In this paper, the authors examine the role that transport costs play in school choice. They note that the average per pupil cost for transportation among U.S. school districts was $570 in 2010 (...

8. Infrastructure and Urban Development

   Evidence from Chinese Cities
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Yan Song

   This paper by Yan Song discusses the links between infrastructure provision and urban expansion, the relationship between levels of infrastructure and land prices, and the mechanisms used to finance...

9. Mobile Telephony and Socioeconomic Dynamics in Africa

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Mirjam de Bruijn

   This paper by Mirjam de Bruijn examines the development of telecommunication infrastructure in sub-Saharan Africa and illustrates the impact with anthropological case studies in four specific...

10. Economic Regulation of Utility Infrastructure

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2013
    Janice A. Beecher

    In this paper, Janice A. Beecher examines public infrastructure as having characteristics of both public and private goods that earn a separate classification as a toll good. Utilities demonstrate a...