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1. Land-Based Mitigation Strategies and Their Implications for Local Communities in the Global South

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2023
   Katherine A. Snyder

   Land-based carbon mitigation strategies are receiving considerable interest for their potential to sink carbon or provide sources of alterative clean energy. The actors and agencies in this sector...

2. Mayor’s Desk: A New Deal in Delhi

   Revista Land Lines
   Septiembre 2023
   By Anthony Flint, September 19, 2023

   Rapid urbanization has brought many challenges to Delhi, from unhealthy air quality to unrelenting traffic. With new policies in place, the city’s leaders are working to turn things around.

3. Comparing Property Tax Disparities in America’s Largest Cities

   Revista Land Lines
   Agosto 2023
   By Kristina McGeehan, August 16, 2023

   Produced annually, the comprehensive 50-state report provides the most meaningful data available to compare property taxes among cities by calculating the effective tax rate: the tax bill as a percentage of a property’s market value.

4. City Tech: Tree-Watering Apps for the Urban Forest

   Revista Land Lines
   Agosto 2023
   By Rob Walker, August 15, 2023

   New York, Berlin and other major cities have launched apps to help residents care for the urban canopy

5. Who Owns America: The Geospatial Mapping Technology That Could Help Cities Beat Predatory Investors at Their Own Game

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2023
   By Jon Gorey, July 18, 2023

   Corporate investors have the upper hand in the housing market, but the Center for Geospatial Solutions is providing communities with the data they need to push back.

6. How Small and Midsize Legacy Cities Can Pursue Equitable, Comprehensive “Greening”

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2023
   By Allison Ehrich Bernstein, July 11, 2023

   Realizing a low-carbon future that is economically and racially just is an enormous undertaking at any level, but especially for small and midsize older industrial cities.

7. La segunda ola

   Por qué puede haber inundaciones tras un incendio forestal y cómo pueden prepararse las comunidades
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2023
   Por Amanda Monthei

   Mientras los incendios forestales, a menudo, son tapa de diario, un riesgo relacionado suele pasar desapercibido: las inundaciones posteriores a estos. Los cambios en la estructura del suelo pueden...

8. El escritorio del alcalde

   Una segunda oportunidad en Seúl
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2023
   Por Anthony Flint

   Oh Se-hoon fue electo en abril de 2021 para ocupar el cargo del 38.º alcalde de Seúl. Abogado de profesión, con anterioridad había ejercido dos mandatos como alcalde desde 2006 hasta 2011, y formó...

9. China's Policy to Limit Use of Public-Private Partnerships by Municipalities to Finance Capital Improvements

   A Regression Discontinuity Design Analysis of the Fiscal Impact
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2023
   Robert Bland, Jingran Sun, and Yu Shi

   China’s rapid urbanization in the past four decades combined with the national government’s ambitious goals for economic growth have pressured public officials in prefectural cities to...

10. Land Matters Podcast: Staying Calm and Planning On

    Author Josh Stephens’ Interviews with Big City Planners
    Revista Land Lines
    Junio 2023
    By Anthony Flint, June 7, 2023

    There’s so much happening today in the world’s cities—from climate change to a massive shortage of affordable housing—that the job of the city planner has become a furiously busy one, requiring a...