Buscar
Results
-
Distributive Impacts and Support for Mass Transportation Projects
An Experimental Evaluation in Bogotá, ColombiaDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2018Alishia C. HollandWho supports mass infrastructure projects? Mass transportation infrastructure, such as metros and highways, is hugely expensive. But it also can deliver widespread benefits to users and windfall...
-
Understanding Changes in the Geography of Opportunity
The Case of Santiago, ChileDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2018Isabel Brain and Joaquín PrietoSeveral pieces of research have been generated aimed at describing the geography of opportunity (GO) in metropolitan areas. However, little attention has been paid to the private and public-sector...
-
Boston’s Open Space and Sea Level Rise
An Assessment of the Role of Open Spaces in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change-Related Sea Level Rise and FloodingDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2018Ellen M. Douglas, Emily Moothart, and Gerard CoglianoBoston, Massachusetts is vulnerable to a number of climate change impacts, the most certain of which are sea level rise (SLR) and the resultant coastal flooding. The feasibility of building a storm...
-
Integrating Green Infrastructure Practices into Ongoing Expansion and Management of the Chilean Electrical Transmission Network
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2018Daniela Martínez GutiérrezThe energy revolution that Chile is experiencing due to the massive incorporation of variable renewable energy to its energy matrix creates an environmental paradox. The greener our energy is getting...
-
The Preservation of Subsidized Housing
What We Know and Need to KnowDocumentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Vincent ReinaThere is an abundance of research highlighting the lack of affordable rental housing in the U.S. Given this scarcity, it is all the more important to understand the future of the existing subsidized...
-
Externalidades urbanas en el mercado de suelo y en las finanzas municipales de la renovación de centros urbanos
El caso de la Municipalidad de Santiago de ChileDocumentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Isabel BrainEste estudio del caso de Santiago demuestra que la renovación urbana no se traduce necesariamente en un aumento de los ingresos municipales. Los recursos recaudados producto del mayor...
-
The Brazilian Housing Program Minha Casa Minha Vida
Effect on Urban SprawlDocumentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Ciro Biderman, Martha H. Hiromoto, and Frederico R. RamosWe analyze the impacts on the urban form of a large Brazilian public housing program—Programa Minha Casa Minha Vida (PMCMV). Our aim in this paper is to determine whether the program impacts...
-
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...
-
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...
-
Accuracy Assessment and Map Comparisons for Monitoring Urban Expansion
The Atlas of Urban Expansion and the Global Human Settlements LayerDocumentos de trabajoNoviembre 2018Alejandro M. Blei, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Yang Liu, and Xinyue ZhangThe availability of global high-resolution built-up area datasets provides researchers and policy makers a tool for monitoring progress on a number of sustainable development targets. These datasets...
Páginas |