This week-long professional development course provides participants the opportunity to develop knowledge and systematize their understanding of the urban informal economy, as well as to develop instruments of economic analysis on informality, land markets and price formation, and the processes that generate informal settlements in cities of Latin America and the Caribbean. Participants deepen their knowledge of the economic dimension of the urban informal economy, technical intervention mechanisms, planning and scale program management, and mechanisms of regularization of tenure of the land through the analysis of experiences and cases in cities of Latin America and the Caribbean and other regions. The course is developed in collaboration with the United Nations Program for Human Settlements (UN-Habitat), the General Directorate of Planning and Territorial Development (DGODT) and the Agency to Promote Development Initiatives (APID) of Dominican Republic.

This workshop explores the implementation of urban development and value capture policies arising from the transformation of the airport system in Mexico City and fosters interdepartmental cooperation between several Mexican government agencies and the Lincoln Institute of Land and Policy to optimize the social impact of the new airport system. Particularly, the workshop provides a forum to analyze the institutional framework and the instruments needed to guarantee that the new airport system will benefit the city as a whole and the underprivileged sectors east of the conglomeration.