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1. Equity in Green Infrastructure

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2024
   Nathaniel R. Mattison and Kyle McKenney

   Many municipalities introduced their first stand-alone green infrastructure (“GI”) plans in the late 2000s and early 2010s, specifically as a means of achieving compliance with water...

2. The Case for Climate-Informed Zoning

   A Study of Fiscal Impact in Norfolk, VA
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2023
   Katherine Burgess, Michael Rodriguez, Jordan Howard, Jared Klukas, and Megan Wright

   As the impacts of climate change continue to intensify, zoning presents a key tool to direct development to protect communities from climate events. Norfolk, Virginia, a city at severe risk from sea...

3. A Series of Articles about the MBTA Communities Zoning Law

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2022
   Amy Dain

   In 2021, the Massachusetts state legislature adopted the MBTA Communities zoning law requiring municipalities served by Greater Boston’s public transit agency, the MBTA, (with the exception of...

4. Building Equity

   Equitable Real Estate Development Strategies for Weak Markets
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2022
   Erica Spaid Patras, Maria Walliser-Wejebe, and Alison Goebel

   Local public, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit changemakers have joined a growing national call to increase equitable outcomes for people of color and low-income residents. The need to improve...

5. Typologies of Integration

   An Analysis of Municipal Landscaping and Water Management Practices in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2022
   Lauren Ames Fischer and Matthew Fry

   How do municipalities in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) region integrate their land use and water conservation efforts? How do local practices correlate with institutional, development, and population...

6. Impacto das Restrições Construtivas nos Preços dos Imóveis em São Paulo

   Uma análise exploratória para São Paulo, Brasil
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2022
   Danilo Igliori , Sergio Castelani, Camila Maleronka, Flávia Leite, Rodger Campos, and Mariangela Christie

   A literatura que documenta a estrutura e evolução de cidades sugere que políticas públicas podem e devem aprimorar sistemas urbanos. As ações de governo...

7. La declaratoria de desarrollo y construcción prioritarios (sujeta a venta forzosa en pública subasta) en Colombia

   La experiencia de Bogotá, 2008–2012
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2014
   María Mercedes Maldonado Copello and Adriana Hurtado Tarazona

   La retención de terrenos (que se identifican como suelo vacante, vacíos urbanos o lotes de engorde) constituye uno de los principales problemas que enfrentan las políticas de suelo: terrenos dotados...

8. Accessory Dwelling Units and Beyond

   How Can Cities Overcome Barriers to Increasing Zoning Capacity in Single-Family Neighborhoods?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2022
   Vinit Mukhija and Shine Ling

   Secondary units on single-family-zoned lots, formally known as Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) and more commonly as granny flats, garage apartments, and backyard cottages, help increase housing...

9. State Policy and Problem Property Regulation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2022
   Alan Mallach

   This report examines how state laws affect municipalities’ ability to regulate problem properties in order to further the public welfare, safety and health within their borders. It goes beyond...

10. A Reformer’s Guidebook to Zoning’s Knots

    Approval Processes for Multi-Family Housing in Greater Boston
    Documentos de trabajo
    Octubre 2021
    Amy Dain

    Local permitting of residential construction in Boston’s suburbs has evolved, along a centurylong trend line, to be more flexible, political, complex, unpredictable, and ad hoc. The route to...