Publications of Urbanization and sustainable cities
GRADE places special emphasis on the dissemination of the results of its research through publications in various formats, aimed at both the academic public and public officials, political and civil society actors, university students, the media, as well as the general citizenship. Research Papers Academic publications prepared on the basis of reports from research projects or reflections of a conceptual nature related to GRADE’s work áreas. Its publication requires an external peer review process. Its publication format is usually only electronic. Research Progress Papers Publications of research work in progress. They are prepared on the basis of reports from research projects or reflections of a conceptual nature related to GRADE’s work areas. Its publication does not require a peer review process; however, they require internal approval and the external institution that requested the investigation. Authors can be both GRADE senior researchers and research assistants. Eventually, GRADE agrees to publish Research Progress by authors not affiliated with the institution, under the endorsement of a senior GRADE researcher. Its publication format is electronic only. Analysis & Proposals Publications with characteristics of a policy brief: aimed at a non-academic audience and with emphasis on its policy implications. It presents the main findings and recommendations of an academic investigation, accompanied by visual resources. Its publication format is physical and electronic. Books Institutionally affiliated books are written or edited by one or more GRADE researchers and go through a blind peer review process. Its publication format is physical and electronic.
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El impacto de la pandemia en el sistema de distribución de alimentos del Perú: los mercados de abastos minoristas
During 2020, the COVID-19 health emergency tested the effectiveness and resilience of Peru’s food distribution system, particularly in its most important part: traditional food markets, where more than half of household food expenditure is concentrated. The shock manifested itself in two dimensions: the reduction in demand for food from a suddenly impoverished population, and the […]
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Reorganizar el Perú: ciudades intermedias y desarrollo
This essay addresses the discussion of “Lima centralism” and the enormous imbalance of resources and opportunities between the capital and the rest of the country’s cities. The lack of territorial planning and specific policies that promote the potential of each region generates inequalities and inefficiencies in the current growth model and, therefore, it is essential […]
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El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
The essays that make up this book have been written to commemorate the first 40 years of GRADE’s institutional life, which coincides not only with the Bicentennial of Peru’s Independence, but also with the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its profound economic, social and political consequences. From different conceptual and methodological perspectives, […]
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Embedding community voice into smart city spatial planning
Public participation in spatial planning is a vital means to successful policymaking and can be enhanced by combining geospatial methods with participatory learning and action. Based on a pilot study in Bhopal, India involving urban authorities, civil society organisations and experts in an informal settlement during Covid-19 lockdowns, the authors find that the obstacles to […]
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Hacia una nueva política de vivienda en el Perú: problemas y posibilidades
The following pages describe the general problem of housing production in Peru, and outline, in a very concrete and succinct manner, several possible policy measures that can help to substantially increase housing production —especially social housing (VIS for its acronyms in Spanish)— in the short and medium term.
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Mapeo y tipología de la expansión urbana en el Perú
This document summarises the main findings of a study commissioned by the Asociación de Desarrolladores Inmobiliarios (ADI) and executed by the Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) during 2019, which aims to quantify and understand the internal dynamics of urban growth in Peru over the last two decades.
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The impact of social ties and third-party enforcement on collective action and growth: micro evidence from Peru
Exploiting a unique empirical setting, 1,000 vendors in 90 traditional food markets in Lima, researchers document that historic social ties among market founders are associated, decades later, with stricter formal (third party) enforcement of market rules, more collective action, and the greater resilience of market sales to the entry of modern supermarkets. Markets with stronger […]
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Drone photography improves understanding of spaces for children in Lima
The objective is to provide local and central governments with tools that will enable them to monitor and improve public spaces. These tools include indicators – such as the quality of the environment, ease of access for pedestrians, and level of use by families – and instruments for assessing them, such as checklists and drone […]
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Planning informality: promoting a market of planned informal settlements
About 30% of the population in developing countries live in informal urban settlements lacking adequate basic services, public spaces and urban equipment. The origin to most of these shortcomings can be traced to a single feature: the urban layout design.
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Communities and spontaneous urban planning: a toolkit for urban expansion. Project summary
Most urbanization processes around developing countries are happening either by rural-urban migration, as it happened in Lima 25 years ago, or by high paced vegetative population growth among second and third-generation migrants, as it is happening now in Lima—and either form exerts pressure on relatively weak public institutions. State-sponsored urban planning is often absent, so […]
