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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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Dimensions. journal of architectural knowledge
This issue explores how collaboration impacts the processes, tools, and methods of design by examining the conditions of its integration into architectural practice and discourse.
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Disrupting d.c.
A panoramic account of the urban politics and deep social divisions that gave rise to UberThe first city to fight back against Uber, Washington, D.C., was also the first city where such resistance was defeated. It was here that the company created a playbook for how to deal with intransigent regu...
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Ecologically-compatible urban planning
By providing an in-depth analysis of contemporary urbanization, an understanding of the dimension of the phenomena and its cause-effect mechanism, this book maps how ecologically-compatible planning in the contemporary city may successfully design a healthier environment.
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Electrifying mobility
Electrifying Mobility: Realising a Sustainable Future for the Car considers the drivers, barriers to adoption and the current lived experience of electric vehicles, drawing upon this experience to inform planning for mass adoption and how regulation might change to reflect the specific needs and ...
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Emerging global cities
This book identifies the constellation of factors that allow certain urban places to become “emerging global cities”—centers of commerce, finance, art, and culture for entire regions. It traces the transformations of Dubai, Miami, and Singapore, identifying key features common to these cities.
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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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Energy and mobility in smart cities
Energy and Mobility in Smart Cities brings together a collection of expert perspectives focusing on key themes underlying successful smart city developments. With a particular emphasis on developments relating to energy and mobility, the book provides a far-reaching analysis of key drivers of inn...
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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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Equality and the city
In Equality and the City, Enrique Peñalosa Londoño draws on his experience as mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, as well as his many years of international work as a lecturer and consultant, to share his perspective on the issues facing developing cities, especially sustainable transportation and equal a...
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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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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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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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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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Finding community
Finding community is as critical as obtaining food and shelter, since the need to belong is what makes us human. Iintentional communities or ecovillages are an appealing choice for like-minded people who seek to create a family-oriented and ecologically sustainable lifestyle—a lifestyle they are...
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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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Form follows fever
Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent years of initial urban settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s.
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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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Governing the urban in china and india
An in-depth look at the distinctly different ways that China and India govern their cities and how this impacts their residentsUrbanization is rapidly overtaking China and India, the two most populous countries in the world. One-sixth of humanity now lives in either a Chinese or Indian city. This...
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Graphics for urban design
Providing guidance on how to use graphic techniques to stimulate and communicate ideas through the urban design process. Now fully updated, the book showcases methods for producing hand-rendered and computer-generated visuals as well as delivering information on drawing maps, collecting data and ...
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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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Housing and human settlements in a world of change
This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neoliberalism. It explores the outcomes of neoliberal “enabling” ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the d...
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Housing and the democratic ideal
Charles Abrams (1902-1970) stood at the center of the policies, problems, and politics surrounding urban planning, housing reform, and the public and private interests involved in the expansion of the American state. He uniquely combined in one person the often divergent roles of "public" and "po...
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How to save the city
Paul Chatterton engages, inspires and empowers the reader to take action to make cities more sustainable, liveable and safer places. He guides the reader through a sequence of challenges, strategies, players, moves and practical tactics of how to save their city.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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In the loop
A thorough and highly-accessible history of San Antonio’s economic and political development
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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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Independence hall in american memory
A chronicle of the lost history of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, reissued on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding, with a new preface updating the constantly evolving public perception of Independence HallIndependence Hall is a place Americans think they know well. ...
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Informal transactions of low income houses in south africa
Sandile Mbatha explores the concept of informality in relation to how such beneficiaries challenge predominant understandings of property relations.
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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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Insurgent planning practice
This book investigates the communicative turn in planning practice, and its potential for insurgent forms of civic engagement and democracy-building, drawing on interviews with urban planners who challenge technocratic spatial planning by incorporating notions of participation, spatial justice an...
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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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Inventing mobility for all
Inventing Mobility For All: Mastering Mobility-as-a-Service with Self-Driving Vehicles describes Mobility-as-a-Service and explains the impact of this mobility concept on social and societal life as well as on people's travel behavior.
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Investigating spatial inequalities
Offering in-depth perspectives on factors such as local labour markets, housing and mobility, this book investigates centralization tendencies in Scandinavia and South East Europe that help shape regional development and act as a catalyst to creating regional inequalities.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Lessons from the british and french new towns
This book explores the evolution of New Towns in France and the UK in a number of areas (governance, planning and heritage) and assess whether their legacy can inspire current planned settlements.
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