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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. Case Study: The Long Beach, California, Civic Center Project

   A Public-Private Partnership to Rehabilitate Municipal Infrastructure
   Otro
   Diciembre 2020
   Michael Bennon

   This case examines the process and mechanics of using the public-private partnership model to invest in local infrastructure in one U.S. city.

3. 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...

4. Infrastructure Economics and Policy

   International Perspectives
   Libros
   Diciembre 2021
   Edited 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...

5. Case Study: Community Toilets and the Challenge of Urban Sanitation in Nairobi, Kenya

   Otro
   Octubre 2018
   Carlos Rufín and Johann Frield

   The case focuses on the growth of community toilets in Nairobi’s sprawling informal settlements.

6. Case Study: Rhetoric of Recovering Resilient

   Unveiling how Building Back Safer Transforms into Development for Prosperity
   Otro
   Octubre 2018
   Kanako Iuchi

   This case explains how implementing the concept of increasing resilience against natural hazards is much more complicated than how it is rhetorically used in the development world.

7. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 2: Blocks and Roads
   Otro
   Octubre 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Alejandro M. Blei. and Jason Parent, with Nicolás Galarza Sánchez and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...

8. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 1: Areas and Densities
   Otro
   Octubre 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Alejandro M. Blei, Jason Parent, Patrick Lamson-Hall, and Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, with Daniel L. Civco, Rachel Qian Lei, and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...

9. Mega-Projects

   The Challenging Politics of Urban Public Investment
   Libros
   Abril 2003
   Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff

   Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in urban areas has received little scholarly attention. This book examines the forces that gave...

10. Land and the City

    Libros
    Enero 2016
    Edited by George W. McCarthy, Gregory K. Ingram, and Samuel A. Moody

    This 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...