Articles by Solly Angel
Shlomo (Solly) Angel is a Senior Research Scholar at the Urbanization Project, Adjunct Professor of Urban Planning at NYU Wagner, and Lecturer at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. Angel is an expert on urban development policy in the developing world, having advised the United Nations, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. His current work is focused on documenting urban expansion and planning for the expansion of cities in the developing world.From Centrality to Dispersal in Buenos Aires
The eBook edition of Planet of Cities is now available. This is a modified excerpt from Chapter 12 — From Centrality to Dispersal. Between 1810 and 2010 Buenos Aires made a transformation typical of many global …
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Making Generous Plans for Urban Expansion: Barcelona
Planet of Cities is now available in the e-book format. This post is a modified version of Chapter 15 — Urban Land Cover Projections, 2000 – 2050 The city council of Barcelona, Spain, organized a …
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World Urban Forum 6
I recently attended the World Urban Forum 6 in Naples, Italy. While there I joined the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy in announcing my new book, Planet of Cities. I also had the chance to participate in a lively …
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The Urban Expansion of London
Earlier this month at the World Urban Forum, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy announced the publication of Planet of Cities (now available for pre-order from the Lincoln Institute and Amazon). This post is a …
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Urban Expansion and Cultivated Lands
On August 28 the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will publish Planet of Cities. This post is a modified excerpt from the sixteenth chapter — Urban Expansion and the Loss of Cultivated Lands. Urban expansion necessarily entails …
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The Decongestion of Manhattan
On August 28 the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy will publish Planet of Cities. This post is a modified excerpt from the third chapter — The Sustainable Densities Proposition. Today, too small a share of the American …
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