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1. 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

2. Report guiding explosive growth in world's largest cities to be released

   Comunicados de prensa
   Enero 21, 2011

3. Podcast: Bogotá Mayor Claudia López, Breaking New Ground

   Videos y multimedia
   Noviembre 2021
   Season 2, Episode 9 of the Land Matters podcast with Anthony Flint and Mayor Claudia López.

   Bogotá Mayor Claudia López talks about local climate action, land value capture for more equitable urban development, and the importance of supporting women in society, in an interview...

4. Housing Affordability in Chinese Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2020
   Li Sun

   Over the past decade, house prices have kept soaring in Chinese cities, making housing affordability one of the biggest social and political issues in urban China. Existing research on housing...

5. Podcast: Plotting the Planet’s Future at World Urban Forum 10

   Videos y multimedia
   Marzo 2020
   Episode 10 of the Land Matters podcast with Anthony Flint and Claudio Acioly

   Financing urban infrastructure and promoting decent, affordable housing were both big topics at the United Nations global cities summit, the World Urban Forum, recently held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab...

6. 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?

7. 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...

8. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

9. Regularization of Informal Settlements in Latin America

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   This report provides municipal and community leaders with an overview of the challenge of informal settlements in Latin America, along with recommendations for improving regularization policies. It...

10. Housing Policies and Urban Development

    Lessons from the Latin American Experience, 1960–2010
    Ponencias
    Noviembre 2015
    Eduardo Rojas

    Access and opportunity are tied in many different ways to location. One’s neighborhood and neighbors can have dramatic effects on health and political, socioeconomic, and education opportunities and...