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1. Case Study: The Long Beach, California, Civic Center Project

   A Public-Private Partnership to Rehabilitate Municipal Infrastructure
   Other
   December 2020
   Michael Bennon

   This case examines the process and mechanics of using the public-private partnership model to invest in local infrastructure in one U.S. city.

2. Case Study: Rhetoric of Recovering Resilient

   Unveiling how Building Back Safer Transforms into Development for Prosperity
   Other
   October 2018
   Kanako Iuchi

   This case explains how implementing the concept of increasing resilience against natural hazards is much more complicated than how it is rhetorically used in the development world.

3. Case Study: Community Toilets and the Challenge of Urban Sanitation in Nairobi, Kenya

   Other
   October 2018
   Carlos Rufín and Johann Frield

   The case focuses on the growth of community toilets in Nairobi’s sprawling informal settlements.

4. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 1: Areas and Densities
   Other
   October 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Alejandro M. Blei, Jason Parent, Patrick Lamson-Hall, and Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, with Daniel L. Civco, Rachel Qian Lei, and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...

5. Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition

   Volume 2: Blocks and Roads
   Other
   October 2016
   Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Alejandro M. Blei. and Jason Parent, with Nicolás Galarza Sánchez and Kevin Thom

   This book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...