World Urban Forum

Recent activity

• Everything
• Topics
• Comments
• Likes
• Files

• likes a comment: Thank you all for your insightful comments. Let me try and capture...

  28 May 2012

• likes a comment: If in developing countries like Mexico urban planning institutions...

  8 May 2012

• "When land market agents and speculative urban developers predominate in institutional planning it's time to demand government authorities and social organizations for a more regulated and controlled..."

  8 May 2012 on Managing urban land to ensure equity and sustainability

• "That's where urban planning with social vision makes sense."

  8 May 2012 on Managing urban land to ensure equity and sustainability

• "I'd love this to happen in Latin America where surrounding land is in hands of speculative urban developers who rise up prices according to demand. That's why slums pop up everywhere, specially in..."

  8 May 2012 on Managing urban land to ensure equity and sustainability

• "Large scale acquisition of land by public sector should be in Mexico (and Latin America?) the only way to garantee controlled urban expansion and low cost plots and infrastructure offering. In this,..."

  8 May 2012 on Managing urban land to ensure equity and sustainability

• "You're right Alvaro. Let's talk about the 53 thousand empty new houses in one Mexican municipality that cannot be sell or rent just because this recently developed projects are simply too far from..."

  8 May 2012 on Institutional urban planning vs land market pressures

• "Go on Shipra and thanks."

  8 May 2012 on Institutional urban planning vs land market pressures

• published a topic: Institutional urban planning vs land market pressures

  7 May 2012

• "With these E-Dialogues I feel part of the sessions to be held in Naples since the views we'll express here will be reported to WUF6. Thanks."

  7 May 2012 on Welcome to the E-Dialogue on Urban Planning – Institutions, R...