Value capture, past and present
05.11.2012
Although it’s been used widely in Europe and Latin America, value capture – the concept of asking private landowners to contribute to the cost of infrastructure, for example, in anticipation of the rise of property values such projects bring – has been only recently increasing in use in the U.S. Value Capture and Land Policies, the latest in the Land Policy Conference series, is a comprehensive survey on the use of value capture in the U.S. and around the world, based on the proceedings of the 6th Annual Land Policy Conference held in Cambridge in May 2011.
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Universities as conservation catalysts
05.07.2012
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy held a two-day conference in Boulder in April to explore ways that colleges and universities can play a role facilitating large landscape conservation. The meeting included about three dozen senior professors, staff and administrators from universities, colleges and field research stations from places as diverse as China, California, Kenya, Montana, Florida, Arizona, Australia, and New England, to consider the role that their organizations play as conservation catalysts.
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Lessons from an unbuilt beltway
05.01.2012
A little over forty years ago, Boston said no to the Inner Belt -- an eight-lane freeway that would have blasted through the urban fabric from south of downtown, through Cambridge, and reconnecting with Interstate 93 north of the city in Somerville. It was the era of urban renewal and auto-centric transportation planning, and the roadways were being sketched out with great zeal -- a Southwest Expressway would bring I-95 to Back Bay, and Route 2 would extend through Cambridge to be another spoke for the wheel. But Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent called it all off.
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