Urban Land Institute

by Rachelle Alterman (Editor), Cygal Pellach (Editor)
Regulating Coastal Zones addresses the knowledge gap concerning the legal and regulatory challenges of managing land in coastal zones across a broad range of political and socio-economic contexts.

Urbanization beyond Municipal Boundaries informs policy priorities to manage India’s urbanization. Incisive analysis of the patterns of India’s urbanization using geo-referenced data from various rounds of the population and economic census highlights rapid suburbanization of people and firms around the country’s largest metropolitan areas. However, the move to the suburbs is accelerated by land and housing shortages in metropolitan cores, coupled with high transport costs between the metropolitan core and its periphery, and much worse infrastructure access and quality for water, electricity, and sanitation in the urban periphery. What are priorities for policy reform?

Urban Greenhouse Gas Inventory Specialist - City Climate Planner program

by Un-Habitat (Author)