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1. Green Infrastructure in Patagonia

   Sharing the Recent Chilean Land Conservation Experience with the European Conservation Community
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Tilmann Disselhoff and Tom Kirschey

   This paper attempts to capture some of the early lessons from the creation of a new National Park Network in Chilean Patagonia. We argue that the National Park Network of Patagonia constitutes green...

2. America's Middle Neighborhoods

   Setting the Stage for Revival
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Alan Mallach

   In this paper, I attempt to provide a comprehensive framework to encourage thinking about the growing challenges faced by the middle neighborhoods of the nation’s legacy cities and their inner-...

3. What Drives Neighborhood Revival?

   Qualitative Research Findings from Baltimore and St. Louis
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2018
   Alan Mallach and Karen Beck Pooley

   We conduct a case study of neighborhood revival in St. Louis and Baltimore, two legacy cities showing both significant signs of revival along with persistent poverty and neighborhood distress....

4. Movilidad cotidiana y cambios en la geografía de oportunidades en la ciudad de Santiago

   ¿Qué ha pasado con las familias que viven mal localizadas?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2018
   Joaquín Prieto y Isabel Brain

   Este estudio describe los cambios en los patrones de movilidad cotidiana de las familias de bajos ingresos que residen en comunas de precio de suelo bajo en la ciudad de Santiago, Chile en la...

5. The 2010 Universe of Cities

   A New Perspective on Global Urbanization
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2018
   Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, Yang Liu, and Shlomo Angel
   with Alejandro M. Blei, Achilles Kallergis, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Maria Mónica Salazar, Daniel L. Civco, and Jason Parent

   Using a number of data sources, scholars at New York University and the University of Connecticut, in partnership with UN-Habitat and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and in collaboration with...

6. The Shape Compactness of Urban Extents

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2018
   Shlomo Angel, Sara Arango Franco, Yang Liu, Alejandro M. Blei, and Xinyue Zhang

   The shape compactness of urban extents matters, just like urban density matters. Other things being equal, both metrics determine the average travel distances in cities, and hence their energy...

7. Government Institutions and the Dynamics of Urban Growth in China

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2018
   Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Min Zhang

   Economic growth in China in recent decades has largely rested on the dynamism of its cities. High economic growth has coincided with measures aimed at improving the efficiency of local governments...

8. CePACs and Their Value Capture Viability in the U.S. for Infrastructure Funding

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2018
   Julie Kim

   CePAC is an innovative market-based land value capture tool used successfully in São Paulo, Brazil. By monetizing land-use entitlements through up-zoning, it generates significant revenues for...

9. Predicting Municipal Fiscal Distress

   Aspiration or Reality?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2018
   Tracy Gordon

   Cities are where people come together to work, live, and thrive. Cities also face a host of fiscal challenges, many of which were laid bare in the Great Recession. Given these challenges,...

10. City Tech

    Precision-Mapping Water in the Desert
    Revista Land Lines
    Diciembre 2018
    By Rob Walker, December 14, 2018

    Officials are assessing how precision mapping tools—first developed to understand pollution in the Chesapeake Bay—can help manage drought and, yes, flooding in Arizona’s desert...