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1. Zoning Rules!

   The Economics of Land Use Regulation
   Books
   July 2015
   William A. Fischel

   “Everyone who cares about American cities and metropolitan areas—and the laws that shape their development—should read this excellent book. The fact that Fischel conveys his...

2. Planeta de ciudades

   Books
   June 2015
   Shlomo Angel

   This book develops a science of global cities to prepare for the coming expansion of the planet's population and questions the main tenets of the Containment Paradigm. It provides planners and...

3. Planning for States and Nation-States in the U.S. and Europe

   Books
   April 2015
   Edited by Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Zorica Nedović-Budić, and Armando Carbonell

   “This timely transatlantic dialogue between planning researchers and policy makers provides a wealth of information and insights into the planning frameworks and institutions in changing...

4. Políticas de suelo urbano

   Perspectivas internacionales para América Latina
   Books
   April 2015
   Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Laura Mullahy

   This Spanish-language volume presents a range of original insights on critical themes in urban land policy and provides lessons learned from research conducted outside Latin America. The articles,...

5. Do Inclusionary Housing Policies Promote Housing Affordability?

   Evidence from the Palmer Decision in California
   Working Papers
   December 2015
   Ann Hollingshead

   Many cities have responded to rising affordability challenges with inclusionary housing policies, where a municipality requires or incentivizes a developer building a new development to contribute...

6. Integrating Exploratory Scenario Planning into a Municipal General Plan Update

   Working Papers
   December 2015
   Joe Marlow, Hannah Oliver, Ray Quay, and Ralph Marra

   Exploratory scenario planning (XSP) is a creative, collaborative planning method that can be used within a community’s traditional planning processes to develop and implement plans, strategies...

7. Measuring Urban Attitudes Using Twitter

   An Exploratory Study
   Working Papers
   December 2015
   Justin B. Hollander and Henry Renski

   The goal of this working paper is to introduce a new breed of powerful software tools and social media data that can be used to study the attitudes of people in urban places. In particular, the paper...

8. Where Do Property Rights Matter More?

   Explaining the Variation in Demand for Property Titles Across Cities in Mexico
   Working Papers
   December 2015
   Paavo Monkkonen

   Existing empirical research has established that stronger legal claims to property in urban areas have significant market value, but previous studies examine this question in a single city or market...

9. What Drives Neighborhood Trajectories in Legacy Cities?

   Understanding the Dynamics of Change
   Working Papers
   December 2015
   Alan Mallach

   This paper explores the dynamics of neighborhood change in legacy cities in the United States through a review of salient research and an analysis of neighborhood characteristics and trends in a...

10. Cities on the Brink

    The Dynamics of Fiscal Retrenchment
    Videos and Multimedia
    November 2015
    Benedict S. Jimenez

    In Cities on the Brink: The Dynamics of Fiscal Retrenchment, Benedict S. Jimenez, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Northeastern University, shares the results of the...