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1. City Tech

   20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovators Changing the Urban Landscape
   Libros
   Junio 2024
   By Rob Walker

   This book is currently available for pre-order. It will be published in June 2024. The world is rapidly urbanizing, and experts predict that up to 80 percent of the population will live in cities by...

2. Scenario Planning for Disaster Recovery and Resilience

   Solicitud de propuestas
   Enero 2024

   The Consortium for Scenario Planning is looking for projects that will design community-based exploratory scenario planning workshops that can be used in disaster recovery and resilience planning.

3. Conservation Easements: Legal Principles, Valuation, and Applications

   Educación a distancia
   Junio 14, 2023
   Faculty: Joan Youngman, Armando Carbonell, Paul O’Leary, James J. Czupryna, and Stephen J. Small

   Conservation easements play an important role in protecting natural landscapes and sensitive habitats, and in promoting sustainable land use practices. In this course, students will explore the...

4. Developing a Quantitative Spatial Economic Model to Evaluate Urban Water Conservation Policies in Denver

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Juan Carlos G. Lopez

   This paper develops a quantitative spatial model for the city of Denver to consider policy proposals to reduce urban water demand using data on land use and water demand by households and business...

5. China Program International Fellowship 2024-25

   Oportunidades de becas
   Agosto 2023

   A call for proposals for academic and policy research papers addressing land, urban, fiscal and environmental issues relating to urbanization in China.

6. Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Julio 2023
   By Joseph Schilling, Catherine Tumber, and Gabi Velasco

   Preparing the country for a low-carbon future that is economically and racially just is an enormous undertaking. Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities investigates how local governments in...

7. Understanding the Direct and Indirect Health Effects of Urban Greenspaces

   A green infrastructure approach to healthy behavior and outcome
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2023
   Yizhao Yang, Hong Wu, Dong Li, and Jie Hu

   This paper argues that urban greenspaces’ ultimate health efficacy lies in them working together as a system and as green infrastructure to provide a variety of ecosystem services. This...

8. Review of Megaregions and America’s Future

   Journal of the American Planning Association
   Julio 5, 2023
   El Instituto Lincoln en las noticias

9. How Landscape Conservation Partnerships Are Working to Address Climate Change

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2023
   Ernest Cook, Katherine Lyons, Rashail Deminck, Lucia Portman, and Molly McDevitt 

   Land conservation – defined as land protection, restoration and stewardship – can be used to address climate change both by mitigating greenhouse gas emissions and by helping human and...

10. China’s Shifting Demographic Geography

    Insights from the 2020 Census
    Documentos de trabajo
    Febrero 2023
    Douglas Webster, Jianming Cai, Larissa Muller, and Feifei Zhang

    This monograph identifies key changes (trends, abrupt changes) in the 21st Century spatial distribution of the Chinese population, based primarily on absolute and relative changes between the 2010 (...