urban expansion, charter cities, densification, climate change, satellite imagery, and all things data, mostly in LDCs
Paris, France
Joined August 2011
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I'm excited to start my new journey with this brilliant new institution!
🚨 Big news! We're excited to welcome Dr. Patrick Lamson-Hall to AUL as Lead of our Urban Expansion & the Periphery research cluster!
@plamsonhall is pioneering new ways to manage rapid city growth through urban expansion planning. Read his essay: aul.city/blog/why-urban-expa…
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Nuria and Patrick at fittedprojects.com are the best urban planners I had the fortune to get to know. Everything in their work is firmly based on the economics and trade-offs of the clients. One-stop shop for market-based urbanism and architecture.
I’m honored to be partnering with @AlexUgorji_ for this week’s Morazan Monday. At Fitted Projects, we designed the urban plan and the buildings.
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In 2019 @MassimoMazzone4 invited @nuforpui and I to design his new charter city, Ciudad Morazan. It’s become one of the projects I’m most proud of. We created a place that works for low-income Hondurans, supporting entrepreneurship in a safe and affordable community.
@MassimoMazzone4, the mastermind behind @CiudadMorazan, envisions a city where good governance is a service. Through entrepreneurial zeal and a commitment to customer satisfaction, Morazán is redefining what it means to live in a free society.
An amazingly comprehensive and civil thread demolishing the claims of the “new housing makes cities less affordable” crowd.
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Hugely grateful to @slatestarcodex for this ACX grant to help establish a new African School of Economics campus in Zanzibar, anchoring @CCIdotCity's flagship new city project -- Fumba Town!!!
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Welcome 👋to the official #Africapolis account, a tool used to map and analyse African urbanisation. Follow us to learn how to make the most out of Africapolis data and analysis. This account will feature maps, figures and facts related to the work of @SWAC_OECD on urbanisation.
Lovely reminder that another world is possible.
Japan takes this even further with nuisance-based zoning: devonzuegel.com/post/north-a…
There are 12 levels of nuisance, ranging from "no nuisance, purely residential" all the way up to "extreme nuisance, can have as much industrial as you want". You can build a home in a high nuisance zone if you want – you just may not want to!
Practically you can think of this as a blacklist rather than a whitelist, i.e. all uses are allowed except those explicitly disallowed, rather than all uses are disallowed except those explicitly allowed
Amazing work coming from my favorite Indian startup!
We @UXO_India and our incubated Startup Valectus launches "Swachhata Har Kadam" app for PCMC to monitor real time toilet cleanliness & Infrastructure status using GIS. Spatial analytics, IoT, Artificial Intelligence has ability to make robust data driven system.
#WUF11 was amazing. So many great conversations! Big thanks to @Nicogalarza and @emesalazart for documenting my badly formatted (but very informative!) presentation on planning in the global south.
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#WorldUrbanForum fue un gusto moderar y participar del evento de "New Land for Migrants" de @NYUMarron y @CitiesAlliance, junto a expertos como @plamsonhall.
De aquí a 2050 puede haber 200 millones de migrantes climáticos en el mundo, por lo que es un reto urgente @MinAmbienteCo
Mañana estaré de 9 a 10:30 am de Polonia en el panel de "New Land for Migrants" de @NYUMarron y @CitiesAlliance; en el que mencionaré los retos de urbanización que ha enfrentado Colombia y cómo nos debemos preparar para la migración climática #WUF11
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Getting back to basics at #WUF11 Urban planning is mostly about organizing public lands
Room 6 in the multifunction hall at #WUF11 - simple plans for rapidly growing cities, the case of Villavicencio using land swaps to protect biodiversity.
Love the 15-minute city? Join @NYUMarron at #WUF11 to learn why it might not work in the global south.
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It's illegal to build normal apartment buildings in 94% of San Jose residential neighborhoods. – at Los Angeles, CA
Sitting in a sustainable transport event at #COP26 and wondering how electric vehicles will work out in #cities where people lack driveways and park on the street. What happens if you can’t find an open spot with a charger? Sounds like a job for #urbanplanning.
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🚨🚨New Pod!!🚨🚨 The great great Ed Glaeser joins @samuelmoyn and me to talk about his new book, health in cities, the efficiency of infrastructure spending, working from home, the value of machine politics, and many other things!
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As the World Bank discontinues the Ease of Doing Business reports, it is worth reiterating the popular version of Goodhart's Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
I hope you can join me tomorrow for 'Measuring Recent Urban Expansion: How do we measure urban expansion and why it matters,' Session 1 in NYU Marron's new Urban Expansion webinar series. Registration: bit.ly/3sKliVh #urbanplanning #SDG11
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Thread on the experiences of the Governor of Afghanistan’s central bank (DAB), in trying to get out of Kabul:
