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1. Distributive Impacts and Support for Mass Transportation Projects

   An Experimental Evaluation in Bogotá, Colombia
   Working Papers
   December 2018
   Alishia C. Holland

   Who supports mass infrastructure projects? Mass transportation infrastructure, such as metros and highways, is hugely expensive. But it also can deliver widespread benefits to users and windfall...

2. Boston’s Open Space and Sea Level Rise

   An Assessment of the Role of Open Spaces in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change-Related Sea Level Rise and Flooding
   Working Papers
   December 2018
   Ellen M. Douglas, Emily Moothart, and Gerard Cogliano

   Boston, Massachusetts is vulnerable to a number of climate change impacts, the most certain of which are sea level rise (SLR) and the resultant coastal flooding. The feasibility of building a storm...

3. Understanding Changes in the Geography of Opportunity

   The Case of Santiago, Chile
   Working Papers
   December 2018
   Isabel Brain and Joaquín Prieto

   Several pieces of research have been generated aimed at describing the geography of opportunity (GO) in metropolitan areas. However, little attention has been paid to the private and public-sector...

4. Colorado River Water

   The Shift from Farms to Cities
   Land Lines Magazine
   December 2018
   By Allen Best

   Until recent decades, agriculture was the main driver of development along the Colorado River. But with population growth, water use has shifted to urban needs, with implications for water-sharing...

5. Hydraulic Empire

   Sharing a Legacy, Carving a Future for the Colorado River
   Land Lines Magazine
   December 2018
   By Allen Best

   In its sheer complexity, the Colorado stands out among the rivers of America, and probably the world. Explore the twists and turns of this 1,450-mile waterway, which lead from the snowy mountains of...

6. City Tech

   Precision-Mapping Water in the Desert
   Land Lines Magazine
   December 2018
   By Rob Walker, December 14, 2018

   Officials are assessing how precision mapping tools—first developed to understand pollution in the Chesapeake Bay—can help manage drought and, yes, flooding in Arizona’s desert...

7. How Auctioning Building Rights Can Help Fund Infrastructure and Affordable Housing

   Land Lines Magazine
   December 2018
   By Will Jason, December 14, 2018

   As U.S. cities struggle to provide adequate infrastructure and affordable housing, many are underutilizing one of their greatest assets: the land on which they sit. They can look to an unlikely place...

8. Integrating Green Infrastructure Practices into Ongoing Expansion and Management of the Chilean Electrical Transmission Network

   Working Papers
   December 2018
   Daniela Martínez Gutiérrez

   The energy revolution that Chile is experiencing due to the massive incorporation of variable renewable energy to its energy matrix creates an environmental paradox. The greener our energy is getting...

9. The Preservation of Subsidized Housing

   What We Know and Need to Know
   Working Papers
   November 2018
   Vincent Reina

   There is an abundance of research highlighting the lack of affordable rental housing in the U.S. Given this scarcity, it is all the more important to understand the future of the existing subsidized...

10. Urban Expansion in a Global Sample of Cities, 1990 – 2014

    Working Papers
    November 2018
    Alejandro M. Blei, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Nicolás Galarza, Achilles Kallergis, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Yang Liu, and Jason Parent

    Using a 200-city sample that was carefully selected to represent the universe of 4,231 cities in in 2010, we generated measures of cities’ areas and populations at three points in time over a...