The developing world has built structures on an unprecedented scale to accommodate population growth and urbanization. The horizontal and vertical structuring of the building stock resulting from this...
This paper studies the long-run welfare and productivity effects of transit improvements in the Greater Amman Municipality. The paper builds a rich quantitative spatial model that includes many aspects...
As Sub-Saharan Africa deals with multiple challenges, including land use conflicts, rapid and often unplanned urbanization, and climate change, there is a need to understand how improved tenure security...
As Sub-Saharan Africa deals with multiple challenges, including land use conflicts, rapid and often unplanned urbanization, and climate change, there is a need to understand how improved tenure security...
As Sub-Saharan Africa deals with multiple challenges, including land use conflicts, rapid and often unplanned urbanization, and climate change, there is a need to understand how improved tenure security...
As Sub-Saharan Africa deals with multiple challenges, including land use conflicts, rapid and often unplanned urbanization, and climate change, there is a need to understand how improved tenure security...
The development objective of the Second Habitat and Urban Land Project for Argentina is to: (i) promote formal and planned urban growth in selected cities; (ii) improve living conditions for households...
This book rests on the thesis that while each city is unique,the global challenges resulting from urban sprawl areuniversal. Three types of sprawl afflict growth throughout theplanet: the low-density sprawl...
Using spatial fixed effects and time-varying controls, this paper draws on complete registry data for 1981–2019, supplemented by satellite imagery, to analyze impacts of urban land titling for some 40,000...
The focus of this paper is on the demand for housing in urban India. Using rental data, the paper finds that income elasticities of housing demand are high and elastic across time. Hedonic pricing regressions...
This brief is a statement on the report titled Land Administration and Management in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, which was completed and publicly released in February 2015. The purpose of this important report...
The objective of the Urban Transport Program Project of Morocco is to strengthen the capacity of urban transport institutions to plan, implement and monitor infrastructure and services, and to reduce bus...
World Bank data compiled through satellite imagery and geospatial mapping provides new understanding of East Asia’s accelerating urbanization. The new analysis provides vital data at a time when much of...