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• likes a comment: Dear jose,Mexico can certainly use its diversified land for further...

  16 August 2012

• "Your observation about limitations on horizontal supply of land is correct, and I think that, in such cities with so many critical limitations of land, is very laudable to even detect optimum levels..."

  15 August 2012 on Greening the City - or re-imaging a city without its green spaces?

• likes a comment: I agree with you about density observations.However,It also depends...

  15 August 2012

• likes a comment: It is equally important to involve local community in greening the...

  10 August 2012

• "I sincerely believe that none of the extremes cases of density percentages are good. We would not want to acquire such a low density city like Phoenix, Arizona; neither the extreme high density of..."

  9 August 2012 on Greening the City - or re-imaging a city without its green spaces?

• likes a comment: This is an interesting debate. Can we really have a city which is...

  9 August 2012

• likes a topic: Greening the City - or re-imaging a city without its green spaces?

  8 August 2012

• "I completely agree with the importance of your comment. I recently read a very interesting article entitled: “How Urban Parks Enhance Your Brain” by Eric Jaffe, and I think that green inter urban spa..."

  8 August 2012 on Greening the City - or re-imaging a city without its green spaces?

• "I personally think that we are confronting an urban-urban migration rather than a rural-urban migration process. The fact of having people from the rural areas having to migrate to the cities is an..."

  6 July 2012 on Can rural-urban migration really be stopped?

• "Hello Priscila. Regarding of any housing law in Mexico, it is a reality that Mexican housing strategies have been very successful to what construction of single-family houses concerns. Thus, here we..."

  26 June 2012 on Comparative Law - Housing Right in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and...

• likes a topic: EFFECT OF URBAN PLANNING WITHOUT HERITAGE CONSERVATION

  25 June 2012

• "I think your comment is very appropriate and suits in many cities all around the world. The necessary mixture and dialogue between new and old is not only imminent but also an actual case-study for..."

  25 June 2012 on EFFECT OF URBAN PLANNING WITHOUT HERITAGE CONSERVATION

• "I think there should be a “marriage” between rural and urban settlements. Rural-urban should work as a perfect symbiosis between two ways of life which should be complementary to each other. We sho..."

  31 May 2012 on Can rural-urban migration really be stopped?

• "First of all I fully agree with Sally Roever when she says that “it is important to recognize street vending as one of many interconnected components of an urban economy.” Public vendors, and maybe mo..."

  29 May 2012 on Street vendors need some planning love

• "I think every city has its own dynamics and particularities of growth, which depend on various aspects regarding economics, urban policies, social criterion and of course, politics. I completely..."

  15 May 2012 on What is "flexible policy" in urban planning?

• "Of course, East Timor could be seen as an opportunity to design a territorial based policy which could serve as guidance to other policies. Personally I think sometimes is better to work on a..."

  11 May 2012 on Planning in the developing country.

• likes a topic: Managing urban land to ensure equity and sustainability

  8 May 2012

• "First of all (at least in Mexico) the municipalities have got to own its land in order to be able to manage with urban planning. Secondly, there are some changes that need to be done on the Mexican..."

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

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

  8 May 2012

• likes a topic: Welcome to the E-Dialogue on Urban Planning – Institutions, R...

  8 May 2012