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1. Integrated Policy and Planning for Connectivity Conservation

   Lessons from Kenya, Romania, and Vermont, U.S.A.
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Zachary Wurtzebach

   Ecological connectivity—the unimpeded movement of species and the flow of natural processes that sustain life on earth—is fundamental for biodiversity conservation in the 21st century. In...

2. Inclusionary Zoning in New York and Paris

   Trojan Horse or Antidote to Gentrification?
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Lance Freeman and Magda Maaoui
   With research assistance from Xiyu Chen and Yining Lei

   This study addresses the question of whether inclusionary zoning impacts disadvantaged neighborhoods by serving as a signal for an up-and-coming neighborhood, thereby triggering gentrification. We...

3. Moving towards an Inclusive Housing Policy?

   Migrants’ Access to Subsidized Housing in Urban China
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Youqin Huang and Jianyu Ren

   China is rapidly urbanizing with hundreds of millions of migrants leaving villages for cities. Due to the discriminatory Household Registration (Hukou) System, migrants have been denied urban welfare...

4. Building the Breathable City

   What role should land value capture play in China’s ambitions to prepare for climate change?
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Alexander Lord, Erwin van der Krabben, and Guanpeng Dong

   What impact does air quality have on land values? This fundamental question is at the heart of our intuitive understanding of how cities in the industrial revolution developed. However, we know...

5. Understanding the Spatial Impact of COVID-19

   New Insights from Beijing after One Year into Post-Lockdown Recovery
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Ling Li and Li Wan

   This paper studies the spatial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of intra-city population and housing rent changes in Beijing, China. Drawing on multiple geospatial data sets, we find...

6. Fiscal Self-Sufficiency, Debt Limits, and Fiscal Sustainability in China’s Emerging Municipal Bond Market

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Yu Shi , Qing Li , and Robert Bland

   China’s municipal bond market suffers from a tension between centralized policymaking by the national government and the decentralized implementation of those policies by subnational...

7. Determinantes del crecimiento de viviendas en alquiler en asentamientos informales de Lima (1993- 2017)

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Anderson García Cristóbal, Fabiola Moreno Jaime and José Luis Galindo Chillcce

   El presente estudio es una aproximación cuantitativa al submercado de alquileres en asentamientos informales de Lima. Se muestra cómo en el período intercensal 2007-2017 las...

8. The Effects of Payments for Environmental Services on Peri-Urban Land Change in Mexico City's Conservation Zone

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Junho 2022
   Julia C. Bausch, Elizabeth Tellman, Alison Acosta-Oakes, Amy Lerner, Enrique Castelán-Crespo, and Bertha Hernández-Aguilar

   In many cities of the developing world, informal settlements are a key place for people with low incomes to access housing. Informal urbanization drives land-use change at the urban periphery:...

9. What Makes a Fair School Finance System?

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Maio 2022
   Andrew Reschovsky

   This working paper explores the complexities involved in defining school funding equity and fairness. In defining what they mean by fairness, state policymakers must address several issues. The first...

10. Designing School Aid Formulas to Achieve High-Quality and Equitable Education

    Documentos de Trabalho
    Maio 2022
    Andrew Reschovsky

    This paper describes the school funding formulas necessary to achieve five broad funding goals that have driven school finance policies over the past 50 years. After briefly summarizing the type of...