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1. 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.

2. Informalidad y Políticas de Regularización

   Educación a distancia
   Septiembre 23, 2019
   Profesores: Adriana Larangeira, Gustavo Riofrío, Nora Clichevsky, Betânia de Morães Alfonsin

   Reúne diferentes miradas del tema de la informalidad urbana con el propósito de ampliar la perspectiva crítica, tanto en la interpretación del problema, como en relación a las formas de buscar soluciones.

3. Informalidad y Políticas de Regularización

   Educación a distancia
   Octubre 8, 2018
   Profesores: Adriana Larangeira , Gustavo Riofrío, Nora Clichevsky, Betânia de Morães Alfonsin

   Reúne diferentes miradas del tema de la informalidad urbana con el propósito de ampliar la perspectiva crítica, tanto en la interpretación del problema, como en relación a las formas de buscar soluciones.

4. Doing Bad by Doing Good?

   An Empirical Analysis of the Incentives from Informal Settlements’ Upgrading Programs on Urban Informality
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2019
   Cynthia Goytia and Guadalupe Dorna

   This paper has two different aims. First, we investigate the effects of informal settlements upgrading programs through a systematic review synthesizing the information provided by evaluations of...

5. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

6. The Decentralization of Governance in Metropolitan Areas

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Roy W. Bahl

   The theory and practice of providing government services in metropolitan areas are subjects that have attracted a great deal of attention in the industrial countries but have been largely ignored in...

7. The Affordability Challenge

   Inclusionary Housing and Community Land Trusts in a Federal System
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Richard P. Voith and Susan M. Wachter

   Richard P. Voith and Susan M. Wachter discuss the relationship between building durable affordable housing and land value capture, using inclusionary housing requirements and community land trusts (...

8. Airport Improvement Fees, Benefit Spillovers, and Land Value Capture Mechanisms

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Anming Zhang

   Airports may use land value capture as a funding source for infrastructure improvements. Anming Zhang explores the questions of how positive externalities generated by airports should be internalized...

9. Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Thomas J. Nechyba

   The traditional public school finance system under U.S. fiscal federalism has generated concern that the use of housing markets to ration resources and students to public schools may increase income...

10. U.S. Urban Revitalization in the Twenty-First Century

    Hopeful Signs
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2007
    Eugénie L. Birch

    Eugénie L. Birch discusses past attempts by municipalities to revitalize U.S. inner cities. The U.S. urban renewal strategies described by Birch are similar in many ways to the British urban...