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Urban Planning for Climate Change
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2007Edward J. BlakelyScientific opinion is now unanimous that global temperatures are likely to continue to rise with concomitant extreme weather patterns and events. There is a protean body of scientific literature...
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The Effectiveness of Community Land Trusts
An Affordable Homeownership ComparisonDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2007Mickey Lauria and Erin ComstockThe Community Land Trust (“CLT”) concept shows promise as an affordable housing strategy that allocates resources wisely and creates sustainable affordability. Existing research has demonstrated that...
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Do Wisconsin Tax Increment Finance Districts Stimulate Growth in Real Estate Values?
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2007Russell Kashian, with Mark Skidmore and David MerrimanEconomic development is one of the central tasks of local government in the United States. In recent years local governments around the country have made wide use of a somewhat obscure and indirect...
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Bringing the Campus to the Community
An Examination of the Clark University Park Partnership after Ten YearsDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2007John Brown and Jacqueline GeogheganThis case study examines a campus-community partnership conducted by Clark University, the University Park Partnership. Since 1995, this partnership has focused on improving educational opportunities...
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Preserving Whose Neighborhood?
The Effects of Adaptive Reuse by the Savannah College of Art & Design on Property Value and Community Change in Savannah, GeorgiaDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2007Kimberly Winson-Geideman with Dawn Jourdan and Shan GaoThe purpose of this study is to examine the effects of adaptive reuse of buildings by the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) on property values and neighborhood change in Savannah, Georgia in...
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The Impact of Nonprofit, Large Landowners on Public Finance in a Fiscally Distressed Municipality
A Case Study of Pittsburgh, PennsylvaniaDocumentos de trabajoDiciembre 2007Sabina Deitrick and Christopher BriemIn 2004, the City of Pittsburgh became an Act 47 distressed community under Pennsylvania’s Municipalities Financial Recovery Act. This law placed the City in quasi-bankruptcy with state...
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An Unfettered Property Tax in Illinois
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2007Nathan B. Anderson and Therese McGuireWe evaluate property tax systems using the economic criteria of equity, efficiency and simplicity. We apply these criteria in an evaluation of both a stylized constrained property tax system in which...
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Impact of Mumbai (India) Textile Mill Land Development on Land Use and Real Estate Markets
Documentos de trabajoOctubre 2007Piyush Tiwari, Anil Kashyap, and Shashwat TewaryMumbai has around 2.5 Square Km of land in the heart of the city (8 Km from the CBD) which is owned by 58 cotton textile mills. Since mid seventies a number of these mills have been declared as sick...
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Measuring the Effect of State Income Tax Incentives on Land Conservation
Documentos de trabajoOctubre 2007Conservation easements can be used for land conservation purposes to keep land in private ownership, while preventing development that might harm conservation values.Land conservation as conservation...
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Which Schools Matter?
Disentangling the Impact of Zoned Schools and Choice Schools on House Prices in New York CityDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2007Amy Ellen Schwartz and Ioan VoicuThis paper examines the impact of investments in individual public schools on neighborhood economic development as measured by property values. Specifically, we investigate which specific...
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