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1. El escritorio del alcalde

   Fomentar la resiliencia ante el cambio climático en Sierra Leona
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2023
   Por Anthony Flint

   La 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...

2. Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2022
   By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022

   Freetown, 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...

3. El mercado informal de suelo en Bolivia

   Prácticas y estrategias alrededor de la gestión de la tierra en áreas periféricas de Cochabamba
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2022
   Juan E. Cabrera , Claudia Quintanilla , and Limbert Cabrera

   Al interior de los procesos de urbanización latinoamericana y su mercado informal de suelo, uno de los aspectos más relevantes, pero poco o nada estudiado, son las formas de financiaci...

4. Housing Affordability in Chinese Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2020
   Li Sun

   Over the past decade, house prices have kept soaring in Chinese cities, making housing affordability one of the biggest social and political issues in urban China. Existing research on housing...

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. Instrumentos notables de políticas de suelo en América Latina

   Libros
   Abril 2014
   Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado

   Based on work presented at the May 2013 Latin American Forum on Noteworthy Instruments of Urban Intervention, this book (which includes work written in Spanish and Portuguese) presents 21 case...

7. Slum Upgrading

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Maria E. Freire

   In this paper, Maria E. Freire discusses the alternatives available to finance slum upgrading in metropolitan areas and large cities. It examines the size of the problem as described by the U.N....

8. Land Lines, July 2010

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2010
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue provides various reflections on the U.S. foreclosure crisis of the mid-2000s; an analysis of housing reform and homeowner security in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and an overview of the...

9. Land Lines, April 2009

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2009
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue highlights the myriad challenges of redeveloping vacant and contaminated land in U.S. cities; the features, prevalence, and outcomes of city-imposed tax and expenditure limits; and an...

10. Land Lines, July 2008

    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2008
    Edited by Ann LeRoyer

    This issue looks at place-making strategies to combat poverty, unemployment, and other issues plaguing U.S. cities; the dynamics and effects of urban sprawl and possible remedies to overgrown...