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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. The Effects of Payments for Environmental Services on Peri-Urban Land Change in Mexico City's Conservation Zone

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2022
   Julia C. Bausch, Elizabeth Tellman, Alison Acosta-Oakes, Amy Lerner, Enrique Castelán-Crespo, and Bertha Hernández-Aguilar

   In many cities of the developing world, informal settlements are a key place for people with low incomes to access housing. Informal urbanization drives land-use change at the urban periphery:...

3. A Cartographic Meditation

   Mapping the Colorado River Basin in the 21st Century
   Revista Land Lines
   Junio 2021
   By Zach Sugg, June 18, 2021

   The Babbitt Center’s new Colorado River Basin map is available at no cost as a downloadable pdf and as a hard copy. Where is the Colorado River Basin? A novice attempting a cursory Google search will...

4. Case Study: Bravery in the Face of Bureaucracy

   The Negotiation and Completion of Minute 319
   Otro
   Octubre 2019
   Jennifer Gimbel

   This case reviews the negotiation process regarding the operations of the Colorado River system after it experienced the most severe drought in recorded history.

5. Status of a New Value Capture Tool in Mexico City

   El Sistema de Actuación por Cooperación
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2021
   David Leipziger

   Growing cities in Latin America are expanding their urban footprints at the expense of central cores. The result strains public resources, and local governments increasingly pursue strategies to...

6. Land Lines, Julio 2018

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2018
   Coeditado por Ted Smalley Bowen y Maureen Clarke

   En este número: fideicomisos de suelo comunitarios en las favelas de Río, innovaciones en el tránsito de América Latina y ¿Puerto Rico puede reconstruir y ser más resistente?

7. The Costs and Benefits of Urban Expansion

   Evidence from Mexico, 1990–2010
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Jorge Montejano, Paavo Monkkonen, Erick Guerra, and Camilo Caudillo

   Urbanization is generally linked to economic growth, and agglomeration economies mean that people in larger cities are more productive. However, urban expansion is also associated with congestion,...

8. Eminent Domain and Social Conflict in Five Latin American Metropolitan Areas

   Otro
   Junio 2017
   Edited by Antonio Azuela

   As a policy instrument, expropriation is often considered a last resource to meet public and social needs. This book, translated from the original Spanish edition, explores how five metropolitan...

9. Hydraulic Empire

   Sharing a Legacy, Carving a Future for the Colorado River
   Revista Land Lines
   Diciembre 2018
   By Allen Best

   In its sheer complexity, the Colorado stands out among the rivers of America, and probably the world. Explore the twists and turns of this 1,450-mile waterway, which lead from the snowy mountains of...

10. The Use of Eminent Domain in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Mexico City

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2009
    Antonio Azuela

    In this paper, Antonio Azuela examines the conditions under which eminent domain is used in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Mexico City. Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico all went through democratic transitions...