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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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Making Room for a Planet of Cities
Enfoques en políticas de sueloEnero 2011Shlomo Angel, with Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, and Alejandro M. BleiThis 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...
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Planeta de ciudades
LibrosJunio 2015This 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...
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Conservation Catalysts
The Academy as Nature’s AgentLibrosNoviembre 2014Edited by James N. Levitt with a foreword by Stephen Woodley“We can gain encouragement from the coalition of groups that have rallied together to promote conservation and embrace connectivity: universities, environmental groups, land trusts, churches,...
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Planet of Cities
LibrosSeptiembre 2012“Students and others looking for a place to start often ask, ‘If I could read just one book about xxxx, which would you suggest?’ When it comes to cities, I have a new favorite. It...
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Atlas of Urban Expansion
LibrosJunio 2012Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, and Alejandro M. BleiNote: This volume is currently out of stock and an updated edition is now available in two volumes — Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition, Volume 1: Areas and Densities and Atlas of...
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