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Urban Development and Land Policy Reform in China
Learning from Lincoln Institute-Funded Working PapersDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2024Ayden ChiSince China’s economic liberalization reforms took off in 1978, various urban and land policy issues have emerged on the local and national levels. This paper briefly examines issues around...
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Equity in Green Infrastructure
Documentos de trabajoEnero 2024Nathaniel R. Mattison and Kyle McKenneyMany 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...
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Land Policies, Urban Law, and Climate Change
Urban Taxation Measures to Address Climate Change Stage 2: Case AnalysisDocumentos de trabajoAgosto 2023Melinda Maldonado, Safira de la Sala, Rachelle Alterman, Giovanni Andrés Pérez Macías, and Roberto Arazo SilvaThis document serves as a presentation of the second stage of research on Land Policies, Urban Planning Law, and Climate Change. In the first stage, we described a series of urban and taxation...
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Regulating Urban Sustainability
Land Regulations, Urban Spatial Structure, Transportation Infrastructure, and Greenhouse Gas EmissionsDocumentos de trabajoFebrero 2022Paavo Monkkonen , Erick Guerra, Jorge Montejano Escamilla, and Camilo Caudillo CosCities feature prominently in debates over how to deal with the existential threat of climate change, alternating between the role of potential savior (e.g. Copenhagen or Amsterdam) and prime culprit...
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Valuing Density
An Evaluation of the Extent to which American, Australian, and Canadian Cities Account for the Climate Benefits of Density through Environmental ReviewDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2022Katrina Wyman, Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Adalene Minelli, and Sara SavaraniThis study looks at the extent to which major cities in the United States, Australia, and Canada assess the climate impacts of densification through the environmental review process. Research...
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Urban Planning for Climate Change
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2007Edward J. BlakelyScientific opinion is now unanimous that global temperatures are likely to continue to rise with concomitant extreme weather patterns and events. There is a protean body of scientific literature...