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Rust in my blood
Rust in My Blood: Planning for Urban Population Decline explores why America’s postindustrial cities have tended to focus on rebounding at all costs, and how they can make strategic decisions that prioritize quality of life over population growth instead.
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Property taxes in south africa
This is the first comprehensive overview of property taxation in post-apartheid South Africa. Presented are the perspectives of researchers who have spent years analyzing the fiscal issues facing South Africa, as well as public finance experts and practitioners from that country. The book enhance...
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Fiscal decentralization and land policies
The study of fiscal decentralization has important policy implications for urban growth management, environmental conservation, and property taxation. Fiscal decentralization gives local governments powers to set local taxes and make local expenditures. In many countries local governments also ha...
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Reinventing development regulations
In this practical guide, two well-known experts argue that municipal leaders can dramatically improve the quality of life in their communities by adjusting local land use regulations. Barnett, one of the pioneers of the modern practice of city design, and Blaesser, a land use and real estate lawy...
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Use-value assessment of rural lands
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 o...
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Improving the performance of the property tax in latin america
This report focuses on three areas of property tax reform in Latin America: fiscal policy, tax policies, and assessment practices and collection procedures. It also draws on an ongoing property tax system survey that provides financial, legal, and administrative data on numerous jurisdictions, al...
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Property tax circuit breakers
This report presents the rationale for providing property tax relief to those who have a high relative tax burden, compares the fairness of various criteria used by states for eligibility, and illustrates types of property tax circuit breakers. It also presents guidelines for elected representati...
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Smart growth
Smart growth and its role in future planning and development remain confusing to many, including decision makers in the public arena who represent citizens hungry for strong policy, planning, and design solutions. The essays in this book cover the history of suburban growth, consequences of curre...
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Sistemas del impuesto predial en américa latina y el caribe
This second edition of Sistemas del impuesto predial presents new data, lessons, and challenges related to property tax systems in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Buy-in for buyouts
This report offers policy recommendations to increase participation in buyout programs and to make them more effective tools for building resilience in coastal communities. Based on a study of managed retreat following Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, the report provides an overview of flooding risk, ...
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Made for walking
Julie Campoli showcases twelve vibrant North American neighborhoods where residents can live comfortably without a car. By identifying the policies and amenities that foster such streetscapes, Campoli teaches urban developers, decision makers, and students how to create similar communities and he...
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State trust lands in the west
Concentrated in nine western states, 42 million acres of state trust land represent an important public resource. Trust land managers, responsible for upholding the fiduciary purpose of these lands for the designated beneficiaries—primarily K-12 public schools—must actively and deliberately take ...
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Property tax relief for homeowners
This report is the go-to resource on the options that U.S. states have to provide property tax relief for homeowners without compromising municipal fiscal health or services. The authors present the pros and cons of measures that can effectively provide relief without undermining the property tax...
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Evaluating smart growth
This policy focus report complements a larger volume that compares four states with smart growth programs (Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon) and four other states without such programs (Colorado, Indiana, Texas, and Virginia). The analysis reveals that programs vary greatly across the fo...
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Urban planning tools for climate change mitigation
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 infrastruc...
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China's housing reform and outcomes
This in-depth volume explains China's residential construction boom and reviews how some established trends are likely to challenge its housing market in coming years. It draws on household surveys and public data in China and provides important lessons about housing policy for China and other co...
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Smart growth policies
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy collaborated with 14 leading land use researchers and planners to measure and compare outcomes in four states with statewide smart growth programs (Florida, Maryland, New Jersey, and Oregon) and four states without such programs (Colorado, Indiana, Texas, and ...
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Using assisted negotiation to settle land use disputes
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...
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Territorial cohesion and the european model of society
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 c...
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City tech
In this book, Rob Walker investigates the new technologies afoot and their implications for planners, policymakers, residents, and the virtual and literal landscapes of the cities we call home.
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Improving tax increment financing (tif) for economic development
In the most comprehensive assessment of tax increment financing (TIF) with practical policy recommendations, economist David Merriman reviews more than 30 studies and offers guidance for local policy makers and practitioners. The report explains how TIF districts work, illustrates TIF use with ca...
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Implementación de la recuperación de plusvalías en américa latina
En América Latina, las políticas fiscales e instrumentos convencionales ignoran, en gran medida, cómo las inversiones públicas en infraestructura y servicios urbanos benefician a los propietarios privados, resultando en valores de suelo que se distribuyen de manera desigual entre propietarios y o...
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Visualizing density
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.
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Making the property tax work
This book analyzes the property tax in developing and transitional countries, addressing why it does not work well there and what can be done to make it a more relevant source of revenue for those governments. It shows that, with careful design and administration, the property tax can be a key to...
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Land policies and their outcomes
In June 2006 the Lincoln Institute held the first in a series of land policy conferences to address international trends and issues. The goals of this conference were to raise awareness of the importance of land policy in shaping international urban development and to explore research topics in u...
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Preservar la vivienda asequible
This Spanish language report provides new and updated information about current policy collaborations among community land trusts (CLT), cities, counties, and states working to address the housing affordability crisis.
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A tale of two taxes
This book examines the Canadian province of Ontario's 1998 attempt to reform its property tax laws and provides strategies—such as restructuring education finance and introducing a new form of business taxation, at both the provincial and local levels—to help policy makers design a better future.
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Scenario planning for cities and regions
This book offers the first in-depth examination of scenario planning. This urban and regional planning approach enables communities to create and analyze multiple plausible versions of the future in the face of rapid technology advances, climate change, and other twenty-first-century challenges.
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The empty house next door
Renowned city planner and housing advocate Alan Mallach presents effective strategies for community leaders, local officials, and nonprofits contending with vacant properties in the United States. Examples illustrate creative ways to reduce the harm caused by vacant properties, jump-start housing...
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Housing markets and the economy
The timing of this volume could not be more opportune. Based on the work of Karl “Chip” Case, who is renowned for his scientific contributions to the economics of housing and public policy, chapters analyze risk in the housing market, the regulation of housing markets by government, and other iss...
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Conservation capital in the americas
Conservation finance innovations are central to protecting ecosystems. Through case studies, this book shows environmentalists and policy makers how to find the financial, human, social, and natural capital to steward the earth's resources for future generations.
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Payments in lieu of taxes
Payments in lieu of taxes (PILOT) programs for nonprofits provide crucial revenue for many municipalities, but they are not perfect. Through case studies and research, this report provides guidelines for when municipalities should consider PILOTs, highlights the importance of municipal–nonprofit ...
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Financing metropolitan governments in developing countries
This work uses case studies of urban financing mechanisms in China, India, and Brazil to help decision makers in developing countries address the challenges of rapid metropolitan growth. The report includes policy recommendations and explores the effective use of metropolitan revenue instruments,...
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Impacts of electric utility deregulation on property taxation
Deregulation signaled a new environment for the taxation of public utility property in the U.S. This book of formal papers and commentaries from a 1999 Lincoln Institute seminar brings together varying perspectives on the taxation of deregulated electric utility facilities and considers the impac...
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Visioning and visualization
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 par...
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Resilient coastal city regions
This book reports on national, state, and local responses to climate-related risks of sea level rise and storm surge, drought and water shortage, floods, wildfires, and heat waves in nine coastal city regions: New York City, the Southeastern states, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and San Francisco in ...
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China's local public finance in transition
China's economy has developed rapidly since the economic reforms in 1978, but public finance reforms have proceeded more slowly. This book looks at three major policy options addressing the underlying imbalance between revenues and expenditures at the local level in China. This is a valuable reso...
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Climate change and land policies
Developing policies that will keep climate change in check has become a global priority, as increasing greenhouse gas emissions contribute to extreme weather patterns. If these emissions remain unabated, changes in global temperatures and the subsequent relocation of human settlements and economi...
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Property taxation and local government finance
The property tax is unpopular among both scholars and taxpayers, yet many scholars have proposed ideas to rehabilitate this tax and its role in local public finance. Based on a 2000 Lincoln Institute conference, this book reviews the economics of local property taxation and examines its policy im...
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Working across boundaries
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 imp...
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Town-gown collaboration in land use and development
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 universi...
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Education, land, and location
Because most children throughout the world attend elementary and secondary schools near their homes, where they live usually determines where they go to school. In the United States, the relationship between residential location and education has been especially strong given the dominance of loca...
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Infrastructure and land policies
More than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence patterns of urban development. While infrastructure is as old as cities, technological changes and pu...
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Legal issues in property valuation and taxation
This "go-to" book for lawyers, law students, and policy makers brings together important legal cases and materials on the fundamental legal issues concerning valuation, tax policy, and the property tax.
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Regenerating america’s legacy cities
This report explores the challenges of regenerating America's legacy cities and suggests ways to overcome obstacles such as job and population loss. Community and economic developers will learn how to rebuild the core of a city, repurpose vacant land, and more so they can revitalize their own hom...
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From the ground up
This report offers numerous case examples of successful initiatives along with the following guidance for stakeholders in the private and public sectors looking to boost the potential of civic organizations to implement natural climate solutions.
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Emerging land and housing markets in china
This book reviews the history of China’s land market reforms, evaluates the current situation and presents outlooks for the future in a way that is accessible to a wide audience of decision makers, nongovernmental organizations, and academics. It is one of the few records of this kind available i...
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Perspectivas urbanas
This Spanish-language book assembles more than 60 Land Lines articles—originally published in English from 1994 to 2005—on land policy challenges and experiments in Latin America. A supplementary CD-ROM features the contents of the book along with 21 additional articles published between 2005 and...
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The tiebout model at fifty
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 hyp...
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European spatial planning
The European Spatial Development Perspective was adopted in 1999 after more than 10 years of transnational networking across linguistic and cultural divides. However, Europe’s engagement in spatial planning has escaped the attention of many North American and even European planners. Based on a 20...
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Governing and financing cities in the developing world
The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global economy, and the resources to help poorer countries become more competitive and prosperous. However...
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Assessing the theory and practice of land value taxation
Through an examination of more than 30 countries and several U.S. municipalities that have implemented a land value tax as an alternative to the traditional property tax, this reports helps officials create better tax reform packages for their jurisdictions. The report's recommendations include u...
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Inclusionary housing
This report illustrates how local governments can realize the full benefits of inclusionary housing policies, which require developers of new market-rate real estate to provide some affordable units for lower-income residents. Policy makers, practitioners, and local leaders will learn how to buil...
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How to use exploratory scenario planning (xsp)
Exploratory scenario planning (XSP) can help communities prepare for uncertainties posed by climate change, automation, and other unprecedented twenty-first-century challenges. This manual is a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in using this emergent planning approach, which is effecti...
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Detroit and the property tax
This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform at the local and state level, as well as insight and analysis to help policy makers across the country protect t...
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Greening america’s smaller legacy cities
A policy framework and roadmap for regenerating small and midsize legacy cities in an equitable, climate-resilient manner.
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Affordable housing mediation
This report presents two case studies and a handbook on the process of overcoming political obstacles to build a consensus for affordable housing. In spite of greater public awareness about the need for affordable housing, local officials, citizens, and developers can learn about the difficulties...
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A good tax
In A Good Tax, tax expert Joan Youngman skillfully considers how to improve the operation of the property tax and supply the information that is often missing in public debate. She analyzes the legal, administrative, and political challenges to the property tax in the United States and offers rec...
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Infrastructure economics and policy
In this comparison of infrastructure across countries and sectors, leading international academics and practitioners consider the latest approaches to infrastructure policy, implementation, and finance. The book presents evidence-based solutions and policy considerations, essential concepts and e...
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Engaging the future
This heavily illustrated best seller provides students and experienced planners with tools and examples to help communities prepare for uncertain futures. It explains how to utilize forecasts, scenarios, plans, and projects to represent, manipulate, and assess ideas to make more informed decision...
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Making land legible
This report describes the past, present, and future role of cadastres as a land policy tool in Latin America. It shows how national, regional, and local jurisdictions have used updated orthodox and or/multipurpose cadastres (MPCs) to strengthen urban financing and inform planning decisions. The r...
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Revitalizing america’s smaller legacy cities
This report identifies replicable strategies that have helped smaller legacy cities overcome population loss, neighborhood disinvestment, unemployment, and other problems common in older industrial centers with fewer than 200,000 residents. Practitioners, policy makers, and students will learn ho...
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Property tax in asia
This volume showcases the first comprehensive assessment of property tax in Asia. It provides authoritative data on legislation, tax administration practices, revenue statistics, reform proposals, new technology, and political debate to raise awareness of the potential for land-based revenue thro...
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Urbanization in china
Addressing the most pressing issues of urbanization in China—urban planning, land policy, rural-to-urban migration, and financing—this book enhances our understanding of the challenges at hand and helps policy makers and urban planners make decisions that are economically sound, environmentally d...
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Land value capture in the united states
As challenges mount from rapid urbanization, deteriorating infrastructure, and climate change, land value capture has never been more important to the future of municipalities.
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Municipal revenues and land policies
Based on the proceedings of Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s fourth annual cross-disciplinary land policy conference, this volume collects scholarly work by a wide range of experts in land policy, tax policy, economics, and urban planning.Municipal Revenues and Land Policies offers analysis of ...
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Property tax in europe
The first comparative analysis of property tax systems across Europe.
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Use-value assessment of rural land in the united states
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...
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Planning for climate change in the west
Planning for Climate Change in the West offers regional planners techniques for addressing climate change concerns while they focus on issues affecting regional growth.A warmer and dryer climate in the mountain states along with federal policies to reduce green house gas emissions affects regiona...
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Reinventing conservation easements
No recent happening in land conservation rivals the rapid expansion of conservation easements and the related growth in the number of land trusts over the past 15 years. Among the forces driving this phenomenon are tax and other public subsidies and the view that the conservation easement is a wi...
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Land value taxation
Whatever the political potential of land value taxation as an important revenue source may be, economists continue to be intrigued by the theoretical case for a land tax. This collection of eight scholarly papers and ten commentaries is derived from a 1998 Lincoln Institute conference that explor...
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Rethinking the property tax–school funding dilemma
This report focuses on the roles of the local property tax and state aid in the funding of public education and analyzes their strengths and weaknesses.
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Making room for a planet of cities
This report—the precursor to Planet of Cities—provides policy makers and planners with a conceptual framework for understanding urban expansion and provides research-based suggestions for how to prepare for the sustainable growth of cities in the coming decades. The data, images, metrics, and me...
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Inclusionary housing in international perspective
This volume studies inclusionary housing programs in seven countries. It show national policy makers and lawmakers exactly who benefits from inclusionary programs and examines the interplay between inclusionary housing and more traditional programs. Through a comparative methodology of theory and...
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Through the roof
This report shows what local governments can do to mitigate the rising cost of rental housing. It considers the root causes of high rent burdens, reviews evidence about the consequences, and lays out a framework that cities, towns, and counties can use to help provide all their citizens with safe...
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After great disasters
Great natural disasters are rare, but their aftermath can change the fortunes of a city or region forever. This Policy Focus Report and its companion book identify lessons from different parts of the world to help communities and government leaders better organize for recovery after future disast...
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Building postcarbon futures
This book offers the first comprehensive account of the myriad ways in which people are transforming their social, ecological, and economic systems to create more just, beautiful places in response to the climate crisis.
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Implementing value capture in latin america
This report provides a review of land value capture's antecedents in Latin America and its longstanding presence in the urban planning agenda. It also examines a variety of land value capture instruments including: property taxation and betterment contributions; exactions and charges for building...
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Integrating land use and water management
This report the overall benefits and connection points between land use and water management; explores existing regulations related to integrated planning, both within comprehensive land use and water management plans; provides case studies of successful integrated planning; and provides policy r...
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Rethinking property tax incentives for business
State and local governments use many types of property tax incentives to increase business development. This report reviews those incentives, summarizes the literature regarding their effectiveness, and makes recommendations for reforming their use to help policy makers and local government offic...
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Arrested developments
Drawing on case studies, survey results, and data analyses of abandoned residential development projects in the U.S. Intermountain West, this report shows local leaders how to identify and overcome problems caused by the real estate boom and bust of the 2000s. It recommends measures to treat and ...
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Property in land and other resources
This book by Daniel Cole and Elinor Ostrom, winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, shows how property rights systems affect the use of scarce natural resources. It is a rich source of information for those involved in conservation, land dispute resolution, land market regulation, public pol...
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Conserving state trust lands
This report presents and critiques tools and strategies for conserving western state trust lands with ecological and environmental value. A valuable resource for state trust managers and policy makers, it offers information on how to better monetize conservation activity and satisfy trust goals.
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Design with nature now
In 1969, Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature set forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems. To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, a team of landscape architects and planners from PennDesign have showcased some of the most advanced ecological design projects in the w...
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The city–clt partnership
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 practice...
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European spatial research and planning
This third volume in a series of investigations of spatial planning, research, and policy in Europe taps into the treasure trove of research that is ESPON, the European Spatial Planning Observation Network, which has yielded a plethora of studies on the real and anticipated outcomes of European t...
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Special districts
The authors examine of the personalities, controversies, and compromises that have created zoning districts in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco. They share fascinating insights into the benefits and problems associated with this unique regulatory tool.
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Value capture and land policies
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...
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From state capitols to city halls
This work examines the crucial relationships between states and their constituent cities, illustrates how states have hindered equitable revitalization, and offers principles to guide state policy reform with an intentional focus on racial equity.
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Erosion of the property tax base
Increased reliance on residential property to generate tax revenue and soaring property values in many parts of the country have placed pressure on local officials to respond to concerns about higher property taxes. The result has been erosion of the property tax base through a variety of policie...
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The community land trust reader
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...
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Preserving affordable homeownership
This book provides new and updated information about current policy collaborations among community land trusts, cities, counties, and states working to address the housing affordability crisis.
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Land in conflict
Published in collaboration with the Consensus Building Institute, this book calls for a mutual gains approach to land disputes. The authors detail techniques that allow stakeholders with conflicting interests to collaborate, voice concerns constructively, and reach successful agreements that bene...
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Regional planning in america
This best seller for regional planners introduces the foundations and applications of their practice in the United States. It offers guidance and inspiration to help professionals and students understand local issues in a regional and global context, define planning regions based on functional pr...
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Challenging the conventional wisdom on the property tax
This book reviews the role of the property tax, addresses the reasons behind its poor performance in practice, and critiques the conventional wisdom in academic literature on the subject. It also suggests ways for government officials to achieve greater voter confidence and more robust property t...
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Zoning rules!
“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 exacerb...
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