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Report
Luring businesses with property tax incentives seldom works as intended, new report says
Book
The world's fastest-growing cities need to plan ahead to accommodate the millions of mostly migrants streaming in over coming decades
Data
Many cash-strapped cities are accepting payments in lieu of taxes from nonprofits, but new research shows the revenues gained are modest
The latest Land Policy Conference volume looks at private contributions to public infrastructure that increases property values
A new report provides a framework for better property tax systems to help fund basic services
As urban population surges, mostly in developing world, a guide to planning tomorrow's megacity
A new report and online initiative seeks to open access to planning software for better citizen participation in planning
Adaptation strategies, from restoring wetlands to development bans and "strategic retreat," underway in the U.S. and Australia
The regional planning tradition, from Patrick Geddes and Ian McHargh to today’s megaregions: also available as an eBook
Report says focus on California and Northeast to start, build public private partnerships
A Tale of Two Taxes: Property Tax Reform in Ontario, is a compelling case study
From Iceland fisheries to cap-and-trade in Property in Land and Other Resources, co-edited by Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom
A look at rapidly changing public finance in China, and the role of local government as urbanization intensifies
Land and Property Values in the US is an indispensible database for housing research
Film
Portland: Quest for the Livable City is one of three documentary films on cities in the U.S., along with Phoenix and Cleveland
Video
Visiting fellow Daphne Kenyon on payments in lieu of taxes by nonprofits, based on the recently published Policy Focus Report
New report examines the regularization of informal settlement in Latin America
Henry George's big idea, the land value tax or single tax on land, is examined in this Policy Focus Report
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