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El escritorio del alcalde
Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra LeonaRevista Land LinesEnero 2023Por Anthony FlintLa alcaldesa Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr asumió su cargo en Freetown, Sierra Leona, en mayo de 2018, después de desempeñarse como jefa del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de Freetown. La profesional de las...
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Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone
Revista Land LinesNoviembre 2022By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022Freetown, Sierra Leone, is one of seven cities around the world that have appointed chief heat officers as part of a global effort to invest in a climate-resilient future. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr...
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Inclusionary Zoning in New York and Paris
Trojan Horse or Antidote to Gentrification?Documentos de trabajoJunio 2022Lance Freeman and Magda Maaoui
With research assistance from Xiyu Chen and Yining LeiThis study addresses the question of whether inclusionary zoning impacts disadvantaged neighborhoods by serving as a signal for an up-and-coming neighborhood, thereby triggering gentrification. We...
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Providing Affordable Home Ownership Opportunities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Documentos de trabajoJunio 2021Larissa Larsen and Kumelachew YeshitelaThe City Administration of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, has engaged in an extensive public effort to build owner-occupied housing to meet the needs of low- and moderate-income residents. By comparing the...
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Opportunity Clusters
The Twin Cities Case StudyDocumentos de trabajoJunio 2021Andrew Guthrie, Yingling Fan, and Greg LindseyMinnesota’s Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (TCMA), which includes Minneapolis and Saint Paul, presents a confounding example of overall regional prosperity marred by racial disparities in income...
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Social Equity Policies and Spatial Development
The Case of Lisbon’s Subway Expansion Projects (1998-2018)Documentos de trabajoMayo 2021João Rafael Santos, David Vale, and Fernando Nunes da SilvaLisbon, the capital of Portugal, is a city and distinct municipality with 545,000 inhabitants at the center of a metropolitan area, home to 2,810,000 inhabitants (2011 Census). Its position at the...
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Addressing Inequality through Bold Spatial Interventions
The Case of the Corridors of Freedom in Johannesburg, South AfricaDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2021Philip Harrison, PhD and Margot Rubin, PhDIn 2016, UN Habitat ranked Johannesburg the most unequal large city in the world. Although extreme in international terms, and particular for its apartheid history, experiences from Johannesburg...
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Santiago de Chile
Breaking through Urban and Social Inequality with Inclusionary HousingDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2021Isabel Brain and Francisco SabatiniChile’s housing policy has efficiently addressed the housing needs of the country’s most vulnerable populations; today, its housing deficit is the lowest in Latin America. The downside of...
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City of Copenhagen, Denmark
Reestablishing Affordable Housing Post-Economic RecoveryDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2021Hans Thor Andersen and Jesper Ole JensenThis study examines the development of the city of Copenhagen’s housing market in the late twentieth century and the subsequent boom and crisis after 2007. It covers the period from 1990 to the...
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Medellín’s Integrated Urban Projects
A Planning Tool to Reduce Socio-Spatial InequalityDocumentos de trabajoMayo 2021Luisa SotomayorThe second-largest city in Colombia, Medellín, has 2.5 million inhabitants, and the population of its metropolitan region totaled 3.9 million as of 2016. Medellín has an advanced level...
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