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1. Podcast: Plotting the Planet’s Future at World Urban Forum 10

   Vídeos e Multimídia
   Março 2020
   Episode 10 of the Land Matters podcast with Anthony Flint and Claudio Acioly

   Financing urban infrastructure and promoting decent, affordable housing were both big topics at the United Nations global cities summit, the World Urban Forum, recently held in Abu Dhabi, United Arab...

2. Mensaje del presidente

   Construir las ciudades que necesitamos
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2019
   Por George W. McCarthy

   Hacia 2050, el 70 por ciento del planeta será urbano: se sumarán unos dos mil millones de residentes a las ciudades de todo el mundo. Si consideramos la historia y el futuro de estas áreas, nuestro...

3. President’s Message

   Building the Cities We Need
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2019
   By George W. McCarthy, April 9, 2019

   By 2050, the planet will be 70 percent urban. How will our cities cope with the predicted influx of people—and will they be able to retain some sense of place, or simply yield to global market forces?

4. Message from the President

   Redeveloping Our Cities for the Future
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2014
   George W. McCarthy

   When I was a scholar at Cambridge University in the 1990s, my now-departed colleague and friend Wynne Godley would drop by on Sundays to take me to visit one of the ubiquitous medieval churches in...

5. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Maio 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

6. Slum Upgrading

   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Maria E. Freire

   In this paper, Maria E. Freire discusses the alternatives available to finance slum upgrading in metropolitan areas and large cities. It examines the size of the problem as described by the U.N....

7. Regularización de asentamientos informales en América Latina

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Outubro 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic...

8. Regularização de Assentamentos Informais na América Latina

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Outubro 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   In large Latin American cities the number of dwellings in informal settlements ranges from one-tenth to one-third of urban residences. These informal settlements are caused by low income, unrealistic...

9. Regularization of Informal Settlements in Latin America

   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Maio 2011
   Edésio Fernandes

   This report provides municipal and community leaders with an overview of the challenge of informal settlements in Latin America, along with recommendations for improving regularization policies. It...