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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. Megaregions and America's Future

   Libros
   Marzo 2022
   Robert D. Yaro, Ming Zhang, and Frederick R. Steiner

   “[This] visionary book provides a high-level map that charts a path through a set of daunting challenges, imagining step-by-step the choreography of reconfiguring, and thereby renewing, the...

3. Design with Nature Now

   Libros
   Octubre 2019
   Edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming

   “I highly encourage students, faculty, and practitioners to read this book and distill for themselves the overarching lessons. Design With Nature Now is timely because it reintroduces us to an...

4. The Humane Metropolis

   People and Nature in the 21st-Century City
   Libros
   Octubre 2006
   Edited by Rutherford H. Platt

   Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation’s sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world’s population is now classified as “urban.” As cities become the dominant...

5. Toward a Vision of Land in 2015

   International Perspectives
   Libros
   Abril 2008
   Edited by Gary C. Cornia and Jim Riddell

   Based on the proceedings of a 2006 conference cohosted by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan, this book offers...

6. Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation

   A Heritage of Civic Engagement
   Libros
   Febrero 2009
   Edited by Charles H.W. Foster

   Many partners have been involved over the last decade in developing an archive of materials documenting the evolution of land conservation in the six New England states. Coordinated by Charles H. W....

7. Climate Change and U.S. Cities

   Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptations
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   William Solecki

   William Solecki examines the challenge climate change creates for city planning complicated by the fact that barring serious intervention, some urban land may eventually be underwater. Climate change...

8. Economic Regulation of Utility Infrastructure

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Janice A. Beecher

   In this paper, Janice A. Beecher examines public infrastructure as having characteristics of both public and private goods that earn a separate classification as a toll good. Utilities demonstrate a...

9. Chicago and Its Skyway

   Lessons from an Urban Megaproject
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Louise Nelson Dyble

   In this paper, Louise Nelson Dyble examines the history of political leadership throughout the Chicago Skyway’s development as a public project and assesses the lessons from its eventual...

10. Metropolitan Cities

    Their Rise, Role, and Future
    Ponencias
    Abril 2013
    Shahid Yusuf

    In this paper, the author points out that the world’s population crossed the 7 billion mark in 2011, more than half of it in cities. Each week the ranks of urban residents increase by 1million and on...