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In this second book in a series on European spatial planning, the authors examine territorial cohesion as a successor concept to the European Spatial Development Perspective. Fundamental ideas about Europe and its distinct “model of society” lie behind the concept of territorial cohesion, which can be understood as a goal of spatial equity that tends to favor development-in-place over selective migration to locations of greater opportunity. This approach contrasts with an American social model that views the equity principle behind territorial cohesion to be diametrically opposed to the efficiency principle based on free mobility of labor.

Based on a review of three dozen municipal programs and interviews with local officials and community land trusts (CLT) practitioners, this report describes how cities are investing in existing CLTs and starting new ones. It teaches community developers the mechanisms, methods, and model practices that are being used to guide urban development and support affordable housing initiatives.

This compendium brings together seminal and historical texts that inspired and defined the community land trust (CLT). The collection also examines contemporary applications of the CLT to promote home ownership, spur community development, protect public investment, and capture land gains for the common good. 

The chapters in this volume examine the effect large landowners or institutions have on local land markets and the tensions that can arise between public and private interests. In the United States the large tracts of land held by private owners are often situated on the fringes of metropolitan areas. Frequently this land is in transition from agricultural to urban uses, and represents a source of income or a legacy for the next generation. Many universities and other non-profit institutions own large parcels of land and have a bargaining advantage in town-gown issues due to their contribution to the urban economy. 

In Nigeria, like much of Africa, a considerable portion of land is held privately, albeit communally. Land ownership and land supply decisions have more to do with family or clan marriages than with the logic of city building. 

This book, a result of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy's September 2006 conference, brings together experts who address the following land policy questions.
What happens when one owner or one institution has significant control over the local land market?How do the actions of individual landowners affect our capacity to create cities that work for all?How well can these individual actors balance the competing interests of those living in neighborhoods, towns, cities, and regions?
Despite the tensions that can arise between the stakeholders during the development process, the tensions are not the problem. Rather, they are the challenge and the opportunity to collectively shape our cities.

This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Charles Tiebout’s enormously influential article, “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures,” and honors the contributions of Wallace Oates as expositor and popularizer of the Tiebout model. While Tiebout holds the patent on the hypothesis, Oates brought the product to market. Based on a conference cosponsored by the Lincoln Institute and the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and Social Studies at Dartmouth College in June 2005, this collection of scholarly articles evaluates the Tiebout model’s influence on the disciplines of economics, law, and political science, and assesses future directions for public policy. It addresses such topics as school choice, fiscal federalism, and land use regulation.

A conference co-hosted by the Lincoln Institute and the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICLPST) in Taiwan in October 2006 explored land-related topics that would be important between the present time and the year 2015, the target date to which United Nations member states have agreed for a set of Millennium Development Goals. This book compiles the conference proceedings and alerts policy and decision makers to the changing circumstances of how society views, values, and uses land. Technology is changing the way land is now managed and used; and the evidence of improvements in land records, agricultural technology, estimation of land values, and dissemination of information about land use is encouraging. Worth considering are the suggestions to examine land decisions within a framework of sustainable development, particularly regarding the sustainability of food supplies.

Once considered enclaves of intellectual pursuit, they now play a much broader role in their neighborhoods and cities. The character of communities near expanding educational institutions drives a need for collaboration between public officials and school administrators.

The evolution of universities increases the impact on real estate, land and economic development in their surrounding community. They have become anchor institutions and key partners in contributing to urban economic and community development.

Universities and colleges impact cities by expanding their student housing, research and facilities, directly influencing neighborhoods and banking land for future use. Through their ability to produce innovation, attract industry, and revitalize their own neighborhoods, they have a direct impact on employment, spending, and workforce development.

The community works to protect its interest in social equity, quality of life in neighborhoods, sustainable development via its planning process and preservation of tax revenues. To meet their expanding missions, institutions often have to reach beyond traditional campus boundaries, and establish more collaborative town–gown relationships. This report describes the economic role of the university, sources of conflict with the community and positive practices in use by successful city-university partnerships.

Land use patterns and urban form can strongly impact an urban community’s contribution to global climate change through the production of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Key contributors to a city’s climate footprint include the physical arrangement of streets and public transportation infrastructure, building types, and land uses that influence both vehicle use and energy consumption in buildings.
City and regional officials now facing new greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements are increasingly turning to urban design as a key component of climate change mitigation. But implementing an urban planning strategy that includes effective climate change mitigation techniques requires decision support tools that illustrate the GHG implications of land use and transportation options. While a wide spectrum of environmental urban planning tools currently exists, few have the capacity to work simultaneously at both the regional and local scale, or to capture both building performance and transportation demand analysis.
This report reviews existing tools that help urban planners address climate change mitigation, analyzing the tools’ scope, scale, methodology, and policy support, and presents four case studies illustrating how existing tools at various stages of development have been used.

Now available as a set for the first time, these thoughtful journalistic collections spotlight replicable solutions to pressing urban issues. In a series of accessible, engaging Q&As, Mayor’s Desk profiles 20 mayors from five continents, who share strategies for addressing challenges ranging from racial injustice to the climate crisis. Written by Anthony Flint, with an introduction by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and an afterword by American Planning Association President Angela Brooks, Mayor’s Desk demonstrates that local governments are the real engines of change. With the world rapidly urbanizing, City Tech investigates emerging technologies and their implications for planners, policy makers, residents, and the virtual and literal landscapes of the cities we call home. The book features newly updated essays by Rob Walker, with an introduction by tech journalist Kara Swisher and an afterword by urbanist and futurist Greg Lindsay. Packed with full-color photography, both books in this urban solutions set will inspire, educate, and surprise all who strive to influence the evolution of their cities.

About the Authors
Anthony Flint is a senior fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, where he is host of the Land Matters podcast. He is a correspondent at Bloomberg CityLab and the Boston Globe, and has written several books about urban planning and design.
Rob Walker is a journalist and columnist who has covered technology, design, business, and other subjects for outlets including the New York Times, Fast Company, and Bloomberg Businessweek. He writes at robwalker.substack.com.
 

Experts in urban and regional planning, political science, economics, and related fields look at issues such as economic interdependencies, global competitiveness, and intergovernmental relationships to address how cities and their suburbs are dependent on each other. The chapters consider possible avenues for effective regional policies. They are based on papers presented at a 1998 conference cosponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago, the Lincoln Institute, and the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy.

This work explains and analyzes critical questions raised by the use-value assessment (UVA) policy for farmland preservation. It covers the origins, key features, impacts, and flaws of UVA programs across the United States and recommends policy reforms to make the programs fair and more effective. A comprehensive appendix details the characteristics of UVA programs in all 50 states.

This book is also the basis for a Policy Focus Report published in 2015.

Use-value assessment (UVA) is the practice of valuing rural land according to its current use rather than its market value to reduce property taxes for rural land owners in the United States. This tax preference amounts to tens of billions of dollars annually.
Originally created to slow the loss of farms, ranches, and forestland caused by urbanization, the reality is that UVA is a blunt policy instrument that provides tax benefits to all eligible landowners, with very little impact on the number of acres being developed. UVA undermines the integrity of the property tax system as a mechanism to fund local public goods and services. Eligibility requirements are often lax, withdrawal penalties are mild or nonexistent, and assessment methods are subject to biased manipulation. Fundamentally, UVA programs are not fulfilling their intended purposes.
This report describes the history and design features of state UVA programs, explains the theoretical underpinnings of land valuation, and surveys empirical studies of UVA implementation and impacts.
It also identifies the weaknesses of UVA programs and proposes the following set of policy reforms to make the programs more effective and fair:
Design eligibility rules to ensure that only parcels serving UVA statutory goals can participate.Adopt state guidelines for assessors that provide accurate UVA estimation methods.Create appropriate penalty provisions for land removed from rural or agricultural use.Restructure UVA programs to reduce tax inequities and provide valuable benefits to society as a whole.This report was preceded by the book Use-Value Assessment of Rural Land in the United States, published in 2014.

As land use issues become more complex, public officials must work harder to balance the contending forces of environmental protection, economic development, and local autonomy. This guidebook, developed by the Consensus Building Institute, offers step-by-step advice on assisted negotiation based on a study of 100 local land use disputes. It addresses why and how to use assisted negotiation, the risks and preparations involved, and issues in hiring a professional mediator or facilitator.

Value capture refers to a type of public financing where increases in private land values generated by public investments are “captured” or recouped by the public sector, rather than by individuals, to help pay for the initial investment needed for that development. This approach works in various ways and can take the form of taxes on the land owners, real estate taxes, or even impact fees. This book covers the conceptual frameworks and history of value capture; land value capture instruments; and specific applications for housing, community land trusts, transit, and science parks. It addresses value capture in the United States, Britain, France, India, Tokyo, and Hong Kong.

This volume features the papers presented at the Lincoln Institute's sixth annual Land Policy Conference in June 2011. The previous volumes are available:

Climate Change and Land Policies
Municipal Revenues and Land Policies
Property Rights and Land Policies
Fiscal Decentralization and Land Policies
Land Policies and Their Outcomes

This book will assist urban professionals, public sector leaders, and the public to navigate two complex and evolving fields: public involvement and digital visualization as applied to planning. It suggests ways that digital visualization tools can be integrated in a public process to present participants with clear choices and help them make informed planning decisions. Based on the authors’ experiences in developing sophisticated public involvement processes and applying 3D GIS-based simulation and visualization tools to planning and design, the book features more than 100 color illustrations and case studies of four communities: Santa Fe, Houston, Kona (Hawaii), and Baltimore. 

This best-selling and richly illustrated book by landscape architect Julie Campoli and aerial photographer Alex S. MacLean helps planners, designers, public officials, and citizens better understand how residential density can help save energy, dollars, and the environment.

This book presents tested strategies for regional collaboration across a broad range of issues related to land use, natural resources, and the environment. Practitioners, policy makers, and citizens will find guiding principles, key questions for regional governance, and examples of effective implementation in this informative volume. 

“Fischel . . . does for the housing debate what zoning once did for cities: brings order and coherence to what’s otherwise a mess.” — Ezra Klein, New York Times

This best-selling book describes how zoning has been overused by local communities to block new housing development in ways that exacerbate sprawl and social inequity. Named one of the best urban planning books of the decade by Planetizen, Zoning Rules! lays out the history, motivation, structure, and impact of municipal zoning in the United States and offers more effective approaches for developers and public officials to consider when instituting new regulations.