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Strategy Considerations for Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funding
OtroSeptiembre 2023Communities, investors, and policymakers can and should build on private capital alongside the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund’s initial public investment.
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Split-Rate Property Taxation in Detroit
Findings and RecommendationsOtroAbril 2022John E. Anderson and Nick AllenCollecting more taxes on fewer properties has created significant challenges for residents and investors in Detroit. This study covers subjects of central importance to the City of Detroit: tax delinquency, business formation, and property value effects.
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A Deep Dive on South Carolina's Property Tax
Complex, Inequitable, and UncompetitiveOtroAgosto 2020Project Manager: Daphne Kenyon
Funded by the South Carolina Chamber Foundation and the South Carolina Realtors
South Carolina has a property tax system that is unique among the 50 states. As this report shows, it is complex, nontransparent, inequitable, and noncompetitive.
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Case Study: It Takes an International Village
How Two West Side Neighborhoods in Cleveland Transitioned from Vacancy and Foreclosure to Housing Rehabilitation and Refugee ResettlementOtroOctubre 2018Devin DayThe International Village case uniquely presents refugee resettlement as a response to Rust Belt vacancy issues and thus warrants further inquiry.
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Case Study: Rhetoric of Recovering Resilient
Unveiling how Building Back Safer Transforms into Development for ProsperityOtroOctubre 2018Kanako IuchiThis case explains how implementing the concept of increasing resilience against natural hazards is much more complicated than how it is rhetorically used in the development world.
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Case Study: Tourism, Conservation, and Contestation in Florianópolis, Brazil
OtroOctubre 2018Allison BridgesThis case study explores how the intersecting urban development agendas of multiple stakeholders can work to accelerate sustainable outcomes in land use.
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Case Study: Community Toilets and the Challenge of Urban Sanitation in Nairobi, Kenya
OtroOctubre 2018Carlos Rufín and Johann FrieldThe case focuses on the growth of community toilets in Nairobi’s sprawling informal settlements.
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Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition
Volume 1: Areas and DensitiesOtroOctubre 2016Shlomo Angel, Alejandro M. Blei, Jason Parent, Patrick Lamson-Hall, and Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, with Daniel L. Civco, Rachel Qian Lei, and Kevin ThomThis book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...
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Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition
Volume 2: Blocks and RoadsOtroOctubre 2016Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Alejandro M. Blei. and Jason Parent, with Nicolás Galarza Sánchez and Kevin ThomThis book, in two volumes, illustrates how 200 of the world’s fastest growing cities have expanded physically from 1990 to 2015. Based on the online Atlas of Urban Expansion, an open-source...