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1. Michael Whitfield of the Heart of the Rockies Initiative Wins the Kingsbury Browne Fellowship and Conservation Leadership Award

   Comunicados de prensa
   Octubre 11, 2018

2. Vacant properties plague struggling U.S. cities, according to new report

   Comunicados de prensa
   Mayo 15, 2018

3. The Empty House Next Door

   Understanding and Reducing Vacancy and Hypervacancy in the United States
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2018
   Alan Mallach

   “Alan Mallach is the sage of the national vacant properties movement. There is no one better qualified to tell the story of vacant property trends, impacts, and strategies through data and...

4. Boston’s Open Space and Sea Level Rise

   An Assessment of the Role of Open Spaces in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change-Related Sea Level Rise and Flooding
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2018
   Ellen M. Douglas, Emily Moothart, and Gerard Cogliano

   Boston, Massachusetts is vulnerable to a number of climate change impacts, the most certain of which are sea level rise (SLR) and the resultant coastal flooding. The feasibility of building a storm...

5. Integrating Green Infrastructure Practices into Ongoing Expansion and Management of the Chilean Electrical Transmission Network

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2018
   Daniela Martínez Gutiérrez

   The energy revolution that Chile is experiencing due to the massive incorporation of variable renewable energy to its energy matrix creates an environmental paradox. The greener our energy is getting...

6. The Preservation of Subsidized Housing

   What We Know and Need to Know
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Vincent Reina

   There is an abundance of research highlighting the lack of affordable rental housing in the U.S. Given this scarcity, it is all the more important to understand the future of the existing subsidized...

7. 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...

8. 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...

9. Accuracy Assessment and Map Comparisons for Monitoring Urban Expansion

   The Atlas of Urban Expansion and the Global Human Settlements Layer
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Alejandro M. Blei, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Yang Liu, and Xinyue Zhang

   The availability of global high-resolution built-up area datasets provides researchers and policy makers a tool for monitoring progress on a number of sustainable development targets. These datasets...

10. 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...