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Harnessing Technology to Accelerate Land Protection
GIS at The Trust for Public LandDocumentos de TrabalhoDezembro 2019Will RogersBy developing and using sophisticated mapping and spatial analysis tools, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has been able to dramatically increase its effectiveness in delivering its land-for-people...
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Toward Holistic Landscape Conservation in the 21st Century
Documentos de TrabalhoDezembro 2019Michael B. WhitfieldIn America we enjoy an amazing conservation legacy. However, all of Planet Earth is in the midst of an environmental and social crisis. Here in the United States, observers often see conflict between...
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Institutional Investment in China’s Infrastructure
Documentos de TrabalhoNovembro 2019Weiping WuRapid growth in post-reform China has resulted in a high demand for infrastructure and the need for sustained mechanisms of financing. As public finances are already overstretched at the local level...
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Are Land Use and Development Changes Associated with Value Capture as a Result of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Investments?
A Longitudinal Land Parcel Data Analysis of the First Phase of the BRT System in Bogota, ColombiaDocumentos de TrabalhoAgosto 2019C. Erik Vergel-Tovar and Patrick WelchThere has been a rapid growth of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems in the world. Currently, more than 200 cities have this type of mass transportation system. Few studies have examined the association...
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Taxes and Economic Development
An Update on the State of the Economics LiteratureDocumentos de TrabalhoAgosto 2019Andrew HansonThere is a large literature examining the effect of taxes and tax concessions on local economic development, but the last comprehensive review of taxes and economic development was Wasylenko (1997),...
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Agentes económicos en el mercado del suelo urbano de Santiago de Chile, período 2010–2015
Aportes a la discusión públicaDocumentos de TrabalhoAgosto 2019Pablo Wainer Infante, Ivo Gasic Klett, and Rodrigo Sánchez LeivaSe estudia la formación de reservas de suelo urbano por agentes de intermediación financiera, en especial compañías aseguradoras, y de qué forma dichos agentes econ...
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Exploring the Use of Land Value Capture Instruments for Green Resilient Infrastructure Benefits
A Framework Applied in Cali, ColombiaDocumentos de TrabalhoJulho 2019Stelios Grafakos, Alexandra Tsatsou, Luca D'Acci, James Kostaras, Adriana Patricia López Valencia, Nohemi Ramirez Aranda, and Barbara SummersBuilding resilient infrastructure is one of the major challenges cities face due to urbanization rates and climate change. Financing these investments is an additional challenge particularly for...
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Financing Transit Oriented Development by Value Capture
Negotiating Better Public InfrastructureDocumentos de TrabalhoJunho 2019Erwin van der Krabben, Ary Samsura, and Jinshuo WangA recent World Bank report warns of the increasing problems of car-dependent urbanization (Suzuki et al. 2015), particularly in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. The integration of...
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Land Conversion and Misallocation Across Cities in China
Documentos de TrabalhoJunho 2019Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu, and Junfu ZhangThe Chinese government has been using quotas to control the amount of farmland that can be converted for urban uses in different cities every year. Using a sample of more than 1.5 million land-lease...
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The Role of Micro-Entrepreneurship in Emerging Land Markets
A Case Study of Rental Markets in Havana, CubaDocumentos de TrabalhoMaio 2019Raúl Santiago-Bartolomei, Marlon G. Boarnet, Annette M. Kim, and Nicole E. EsparzaThe government of Cuba has recently allowed its citizens to buy, sell, and rent property as part of a broader set of reforms that foster land market liberalization and micro-entrepreneurship by way...
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