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1. Evaluating Smart Growth

   State and Local Policy Outcomes
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2009
   Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   As smart growth programs in some states approach their fourth decade, new climate change concerns have raised the stakes on their success in managing urban development. This is an opportune time to...

2. Buy-In for Buyouts

   The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood Zones
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2016
   Robert Freudenberg, Ellis Calvin, Laura Tolkoff, and Dare Brawley

   This report offers policy recommendations to increase participation in buyout programs and to make them more effective tools for building resilience in coastal communities. Based on a study of...

3. Arrested Developments

   Combating Zombie Subdivisions and Other Excess Entitlements
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Enero 2014
   Jim Holway, Don Elliott, and Anna Trentadue

   Drawing on case studies, survey results, and data analyses of abandoned residential development projects in the U.S. Intermountain West, this report shows local leaders how to identify and overcome...

4. Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Diciembre 2002
   Douglas R. Porter and Allan D. Wallis

   A growing number of urban challenges—from threats of environmental degradation and sprawl, to social and fiscal disparity, to economic transformation and globalization—call for action at...

5. On Borrowed Land

   Public Policies for Floodplains
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 1996
   Scott Faber

   Flooding is a natural hydrologic occurrence, but flood-related damage to property and the risks to human life are exacerbated by urban growth and other intensive development in floodplains. The...

6. Regularización de asentamientos informales en América Latina

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Octubre 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic...

7. Regularização de Assentamentos Informais na América Latina

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Octubre 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic...

8. Implementing Value Capture in Latin America

   Policies and Tools for Urban Development
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2013
   Martim O. Smolka

   This report provides a review of land value capture's antecedents in Latin America and its longstanding presence in the urban planning agenda. It also examines a variety of land value capture...

9. Regenerating America’s Legacy Cities

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2013
   Alan Mallach and Lavea Brachman

   This report explores the challenges of regenerating America's legacy cities and suggests ways to overcome obstacles such as job and population loss. Community and economic developers will learn...

10. Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change Mitigation

    Enfoques en políticas de suelo
    Agosto 2009
    Patrick M. Condon, Duncan Cavens, and Nicole Miller

    Land use patterns and urban form can strongly impact an urban community’s contribution to global climate change through the production of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Key contributors to a...