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1. Take the Q Train

   Value Capture of Public Infrastructure Projects
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2020
   Arpit Gupta, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Constantine Kontokosta

   Transit infrastructure is a critical asset for economic activity yet costly to build in dense urban environments. We measure the benefit of the Second Avenue Subway extension in New York City by...

2. Large Scale Urban Projects

   The State and Gentrification in the Belo Horizonte Metropolitan Region
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2020
   Roberto Luís de Melo Monte-Mór, Renan Pereira Almeida, and Marcelo de Brito Brandão

   This paper assesses the degree to which a series of large-scale urban projects along the North Axis of the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte (MRBH), Brazil, may have triggered a process of...

3. Housing Affordability in Chinese Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2020
   Li Sun

   Over the past decade, house prices have kept soaring in Chinese cities, making housing affordability one of the biggest social and political issues in urban China. Existing research on housing...

4. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2020
   Jenna DeAngelo

   How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...

5. Implementing Value Capture in Israel

   An Examination of Recent Tools and Policies for Urban Renewal and Earthquake Preparedness
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2020
   Nir Mualam, Eyal Salinger, and Sarah Goldberg

   The working paper investigates one of the most innovative tools in the existing Israeli planning toolkit. TAMA 38, also known as National Outline Plan No. 38, uses value capture in order to help the...

6. Scenario Planning for Smaller Places

   Aligning Methods and Context
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2020
   Robert Goodspeed and David DeBoskey

   Empirical studies of the use of scenarios in planning processes have often focused on projects that are relatively atypical of broader professional planning practice, such as large, novel, complex...

7. Urban Land Value Capture in São Paulo, Addis Ababa, and Hyderabad

   Differing Interpretations, Equity Impacts, and Enabling Conditions
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2020
   Anjali Mahendra, Robin King, Erin Gray, Maria Hart, Laura Azeredo, Luana Betti, Surya Prakash, Amartya Deb, Elleni Ashebir, and Asmaa Ibrahim

   This paper presents analysis of the fiscal and equity impacts of urban land value capture instruments based on three case studies from the global south. These include the Lideta redevelopment in...