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Planning support systems for cities and regions
Editor Richard K. Brail has brought together the wisest of the field’s thinkers, the most inventive of the toolmakers, the most experienced of those working at the interface with real clients, and the most battle-seasoned practicing planners (and many of these individuals occupy more than one of ...
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Land value taxation in britain
Attempts at introducing land value taxation in the United Kingdom demonstrate a long and varied history. This book considers this history and how the tax is particularly relevant today. It explores past debates over different forms of the tax, its role in generating government revenue, its practi...
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China's environmental policy and urban development
This volume tackles a range of ecological issues caused by rapid urban growth in China and examines the policies meant to protect the environment. It features discussions from leading scholars on current regulations, government decentralization and environmental protection, urban development, ind...
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Toward a vision of land in 2015
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 stat...
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Sistemas del impuesto predial en américa latina y el caribe
This Spanish-language book consolidates a decade's worth of data on fiscal and tax management decisions in 200 jurisdictions across nine Latin American and Caribbean countries. By highlighting advances, lessons learned, and legal, juridical, and technical obstacles that must be addressed, it prov...
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Planning in a polycrisis
This report outlines strategies for integrating equity into climate and housing planning in five North American cities: Boston, Denver, Portland, Vancouver, and Washington, DC.
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The property tax-school funding dilemma
This report seeks to correct common misconceptions surrounding the practice of relying on the property tax to fund public schools. Through a comprehensive review of research and seven case studies, it offers recommendations that policy makers can use both to provide significant property tax relie...
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Planning for states and nation-states in the u.s. and europe
Through case studies, this book presents alternative planning frameworks in the United States and Europe. It shows planners and policy makers how states and nation-states are addressing issues such as climate change, economic development, and community revitalization, while also adapting to ongoi...
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Conservation catalysts
This volume collects more than a dozen firsthand accounts of how conservationists at academic institutions are contending with biodiversity loss and climate change. Readers will learn how to protect wildlife habitats, improve water quality, build sustainable economies, and upgrade public amenitie...
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Opening access to scenario planning tools
In the face of increasing complexity and uncertainty, planners, public officials, and community residents need new tools to anticipate and shape the future. Opening Access to Scenario Planning Tools examines the current state of scenario planning and scenario planning tools that can help communit...
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Megaregions and america's future
This source book provides updated demographic, economic, and environmental information on U.S. megaregions—such as the Southwestern Sun Corridor or Great Lakes—for urban and regional planners, policy makers, academics, and decision makers in transportation, environmental protection, and developme...
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Property tax in africa
This book is the first comprehensive study of the property tax in Africa. Rigorously researched, it reviews and analyzes developments in the policies, laws, and administrative practices in 29 countries and offers public officials and practitioners on the ground information to meet the fiscal chal...
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Analyzing land readjustment
Great effort has been devoted to the precise delineation and assignment of the legal and physical boundaries of private property. Yet, issues of unifying or assembling private property rights for urban redevelopment remain understudied. The contributors to this book search for viable alternatives...
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Finding answers in land
Designed for policymakers, planners and practitioners, community leaders, and others, this guidebook offers an array of practical and proven land policy strategies and solutions.
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Proposition 13
How have California’s local governments coped with the severe revenue restrictions of Prop 13? What effects has the property tax revolution had on urban growth patterns in the state? Has the act produced viable and lasting reform, or was it a tragic mistake? The expert analyses in this ten-year r...
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Smart urban growth for china
This book presents various perspectives on shaping a sustainable urban future for China based on conference discussions of the following questions: What lessons can China learn from other countries through their experiences in combating urban sprawl? What are the “dumb” growth patterns that are e...
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The property tax and local autonomy
Some of the nation's leading scholars of government and public finance provide their views on the consequences of a declining property tax base. They show local government officials and others how property tax revenue–or the lack of such revenue–affects local autonomy, decision making, and the ab...
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Lessons from sandy
This report, spurred by the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, identifies a set of policies, regulations, and administrative practices that federal agencies can adopt to help coastal metropolitan regions recover quickly from natural disasters and reduce future risk in the face of climate change and ri...
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Recycling the city
This collection of essays examines underutilized, abandoned, and vacant urban land within political, economic, institutional, and policy contexts. The 11 chapters raise the essential questions: Is vacant land an opportunity or an obstacle? Are brownfields a legacy of prior industrial wealth, or o...
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Property tax assessment limits
This policy focus report examines options that exist for timely and efficient aid to needy taxpayers, including circuit breaker programs that reduce taxes based on income level; truth in taxation measures; deferral options on property tax payments; partial exemptions on owner-occupied or homestea...
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Nature and cities
This illustrated collection of essays by leading international architects, landscape architects, city planners, and urban designers demonstrates the economic, environmental, and public health benefits of integrating nature more fully into cities.
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Preventing house price bubbles
The recent boom and bust in house prices generated widespread fallout, affecting metropolitan areas across the country. But the extent of the damage varied widely, suggesting that local market conditions also played an important role in determining how the crisis played out. As a result, national...
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Leasing public land
Leasehold systems offer a flexible form of land tenure that can be designed to provide an ongoing stream of revenue to finance public infrastructure. Leasing public land has long been advocated as a viable land tenure option for former socialist countries and other transitional economies. However...
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The impact of large landowners on land markets
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 a...
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Equitably developing america’s smaller legacy cities
Many smaller industrial cities in the Rust Belt declined in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This report presents strategies for reinventing these places—tapping their full potential while preparing workers for jobs, helping local businesses expand, empowering residents to become civic l...
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Property rights and land policies
The Lincoln Institute’s third annual land policy conference explored the connections between property rights and land policies in developed and developing country contexts. The chapter authors discuss a range of topics including regulatory takings, the use of eminent domain and expropriation in l...
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Mayor's desk
In this collection of interviews, 20 mayors from five continents share their strategies for tackling global challenges at the local level.
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Implementing a local property tax where there is no real estate market
This report summarizes what was learned from a workshop held in a tribal area of Limpopo Province, which sought to assist local residents in identifying land attributes that affect the relative desirability of different plots, and to apply those criteria to selected plots as a step toward develop...
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Urban-suburban interdependencies
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 possib...
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