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1. Urban Expansion in a Global Sample of Cities, 1990 – 2014

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Alejandro M. Blei, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Nicolás Galarza, Achilles Kallergis, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Yang Liu, and Jason Parent

   Using a 200-city sample that was carefully selected to represent the universe of 4,231 cities in in 2010, we generated measures of cities’ areas and populations at three points in time over a...

2. The State of the Streets

   New Findings from the Atlas of Urban Expansion – 2016 Edition
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Patrick Lamson-Hall, Shlomo Angel, and Yang Liu

   Relatively little is known about the spatial organization of streets and roads in the world’s cities, the differences that exist across cities, or the differences that have emerged within...

3. Housing Affordability in a Global Perspective

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Achilles Kallergis, Shlomo Angel, Yang Liu, Alejandro M. Blei, Nicolás Galarza, and Patrick Lamson-Hall

   This paper discusses housing affordability in cities the world over based on data from the Land and Housing Survey in a Global Sample of Cities. We report on the composition of the housing sector...

4. The Global Reach of Land Trust Organizations

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2015
   Peter Stein

   This paper is a summary of the author’s reflections gained from the many interactions he has had over the past 18 months with land trust practitioners, academics and government agency leaders on...

5. A Global Compendium and Meta-Analysis of Property Tax Systems

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2014
   Richard Almy

   This report is a global compendium of significant features of systems for recurrently taxing land and buildings. It is based on works in English, many of which were published by the Lincoln Institute...

6. Metropolitan Infrastructure and Capital Finance

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Gregory K. Ingram, Zhi Liu, and Karin L. Brandt

   This paper provides a baseline analysis and comparison of private participation in key infrastructure (energy, transportation, telecommunications, water and sanitation) for developing countries...

7. The Impact of Climate Change on Land

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2011
   Robert Mendelsohn

   In this paper, Robert Mendelsohn discusses land use changes in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and recreational activities. Although the precise magnitude of climate change is not known,...