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1. Assessing Urban Land Use Regulation in Argentina

   Literature Review and Research Strategy
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Cynthia Goytia and Ricardo A. Pasquini

   This paper reports the advances made in our research on urban land regulation in Argentina during 2010 and 2011 and describes what we plan to do next. In this research we aim at a better...

2. The Spatial Structure of Cities in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Rebecca Lewis, Gerrit Knaap, and Jamie Schindewolf

   In recent years, the spatial structure of cities has become the subject of considerable interest, as travel behavior, greenhouse gas emissions, loss of habitat, public expenditures, and more are...

3. Finding New Forms for America’s Legacy Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Alan Mallach and Lavea Brachman

   The purpose of this working paper is to explore the opportunities for regeneration in America’s legacy cities, its older industrial cities that have experienced sustained job and population...

4. The Resolution of Land-Use Conflicts in Sao Paulo

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Salo Coslovsky

   São Paulo, Brazil, is a densely populated, globally connected urban center whose rapid growth has been associated with an increasing number of land-use conflicts. In this paper, I use...

5. Income-Based Property Tax Relief

   Circuit Breaker Tax Expenditures
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   John E. Anderson

   This paper provides a guide to the policy analysis of income-based property tax relief programs. Income-based property tax relief mechanisms are often called circuit breakers in the tax policy world...

6. Assessment Limits

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Katrina D. Connolly and Michael E. Bell

   This paper discusses assessment limits which are a type tax expenditure that limits or places a cap on the amount a property can increase in assessed value for taxation each year. This paper...

7. Use Value Assessments and the Costs to Local Governments

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Daniel Coogan, Michael E. Bell, and David Brunori

   This paper addresses several issues related to states’ programs for use-value assessments on agricultural and forest land. The paper identifies and describes each state’s preferential use...

8. Preferential Assessment for Open Space

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Jeffrey O. Sundberg

   Land with little or limited development, often referred to as open space, can provide environmental and amenity benefits to society. Twenty-three states offer an incentive to keep land open in the...

9. Water, Water Everywhere

   Sea Level Rise and Land Use Planning in Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Pará
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2013
   Thomas E. Bassett and Gregory R. Scruggs

   The Caribbean and northern coastal Brazil face severe impacts from climate change, particularly from sea-level rise. This paper analyses current land use and development policies in three Caribbean...

10. Rio de Janeiro Residents Associations and Recent Favela Real Estate Trends

    Documentos de trabajo
    Julio 2013
    Gregory R. Scruggs and Arthur Acoca-Pidolle

    Favelas in Rio de Janeiro have been targeted by public policies in the last four years designed to improve quality of life through improved public safety, transportation, housing, and social...