Publicações

Outubro 2016, inglês

This month, like conquistadors of centuries past, tens of thousands of us will ascend the Andes to Quito, Ecuador, in search of El Dorado. But, unlike our brutal and greedy predecessors, we are not pursuing metallic wealth beyond our wildest dreams. The golden city we seek promises a sustainable urban future. Our map—the New Urban […]

Outubro 2016, inglês

Land readjustment is a vital but difficult and time-consuming process: formulating a sort of retroactive version of planning in neighborhoods that developed informally, with unsanctioned dwellings chaotically built in ways that leave some with no access to streets and paths. According to UN-Habitat, 863 million people around the world lived in such settings as of […]

Outubro 2016, inglês

The Chesapeake Bay is a cultural icon, a national treasure, and a natural resource protected by hundreds of agencies, nonprofit organizations, and institutions. Now with unprecedented accuracy, a new ultra-high-resolution digital mapping technology, developed by the Chesapeake Conservancy and supported by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, is pinpointing pollution and other threats to the […]

Outubro 2016, inglês

Cities around the world seem to be stretching out physically and consuming land at a rate that exceeds population growth. As populations double, land use triples. When city growth comes up in public discourse, the conversation almost invariably focuses on population. We speak of “booming” cities that have grown from, say, 2 to 5 million […]

Outubro 2016, inglês

This feature is adapted from Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning, edited by Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell (Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, November 2016). During the past 400 years, the land known as the United States of America has been transformed by massive public and […]

Outubro 2016, inglês

Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning Edited by Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell “The beautiful photographs and lush design of Nature and Cities mask a radical and revolutionary set of ideas from some of the world’s most insightful and intelligent landscape architects and urbanists. Brilliantly curated […]

Outubro 2016, inglês

Buy-In for Buyouts: The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood Zones By Robert Freudenberg, Ellis Calvin, Laura Tolkoff, and Dare Brawley In the face of rising sea levels, more frequent and severe storms, and other climate change risks, flood-prone communities need to give greater consideration to strategic retreat through buyouts, a policy tool for removing residential development […]

Outubro 2016, inglês

In this special edition for Habitat III we map the future—with content on the New Urban Agenda; the 2016 Atlas of Urban Expansion; the Chesapeake Conservancy’s groundbreaking high-resolution land cover GIS; and the need for a U.S. infrastructure upgrade.