This issue features informal settlements in the context of urban poverty and land market dynamics in Latin America; a debate between planners and economists on U.S. land market policies and implementation; prospects on land value taxation in Britain; and a symposium dedicated to a man who sought to bridge the gap between urbanism and ecology.

This issue looks at past, present, and future urban conditions in Cuba; value-based taxation prospects in Lithuania; reviving environmental regionalism in the U.S.; and the challenges and complexities of large urban projects in Latin America.