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Jul 14,2020
Accommodating Growth
in Latin American and Caribbean Cities
Director of Urban Expansion, Solly Angel, has coauthored Accommodating Urban Growth in Latin American and Caribbean Cities, the result of a collaboration between the Inter-American Development Bank and NYU, initiated in 2021 with support from the Korean government and the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements. The book:
[I]nvestigates how cities can accommodate new urban populations and elevate the standard of living of current dwellers. The first section introduces a new conceptual framework and international best practices in accommodating urban growth and reviews the emerging empirical evidence gathered in 70 cities across Latin American and Caribbean Region. The second section builds on this work to present an Atlas of Latin American and Caribbean Cities. Cartographies and graphics portray the anatomy of density of the cities through a series of parameters that allow to depict their transformation over the past four decades and assess their potential for future growth. Campo Grande, Mérida, and San Salvador are presented as case studies. Finally, the third section includes a series of strategies to plan for urban growth: guidelines for urban expansion and densification, new frameworks for sustainability, and emerging technologies.