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City Tech
20 Apps, Ideas, and Innovators Changing the Urban LandscapeLibrosJunio 2024By Rob WalkerThis 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...
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Megaregions and America's Future
LibrosMarzo 2022Robert 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...
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Infrastructure Economics and Policy
International PerspectivesLibrosDiciembre 2021Edited by José A. Gómez-Ibáñez and Zhi Liu“The content is highly relevant right now. As countries worldwide are designing economic recovery and stimulus programs from the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of infrastructure has come...
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Land and the City
LibrosEnero 2016Edited by George W. McCarthy, Gregory K. Ingram, and Samuel A. MoodyThis book from the Lincoln Institute's 2014 Land Policy Conference examines issues of land use policies and their impact on sustainable urbanization. By 1960, one-third of the world’s...
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Planeta de ciudades
LibrosJunio 2015This book develops a science of global cities to prepare for the coming expansion of the planet's population and questions the main tenets of the Containment Paradigm. It provides planners and...
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Planning for States and Nation-States in the U.S. and Europe
LibrosAbril 2015Edited by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Zorica Nedović-Budić, and Armando Carbonell“This timely transatlantic dialogue between planning researchers and policy makers provides a wealth of information and insights into the planning frameworks and institutions in changing...
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Infrastructure and Land Policies
LibrosMayo 2013Edited by Gregory K. Ingram and Karin L. BrandtMore than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence...
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Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries
LibrosAbril 2013Edited by Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, and Deborah L. WetzelThis work uses case studies of urban financing mechanisms in China, India, and Brazil to help decision makers in developing countries address the challenges of rapid metropolitan growth. The report...
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China’s Environmental Policy and Urban Development
LibrosFebrero 2013Edited by Joyce Yanyun Man“It is well known that rapid urbanization and industrialization in China have had serious consequences for China's environment. Far less recognized are the wide ranging efforts undertaken...
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Planet of Cities
LibrosSeptiembre 2012“Students and others looking for a place to start often ask, ‘If I could read just one book about xxxx, which would you suggest?’ When it comes to cities, I have a new favorite. It...
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