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1. Do Inclusionary Housing Policies Promote Housing Affordability?

   Evidence from the Palmer Decision in California
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2015
   Ann Hollingshead

   Many cities have responded to rising affordability challenges with inclusionary housing policies, where a municipality requires or incentivizes a developer building a new development to contribute...

2. Integrating Exploratory Scenario Planning into a Municipal General Plan Update

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2015
   Joe Marlow, Hannah Oliver, Ray Quay, and Ralph Marra

   Exploratory scenario planning (XSP) is a creative, collaborative planning method that can be used within a community’s traditional planning processes to develop and implement plans, strategies...

3. Measuring Urban Attitudes Using Twitter

   An Exploratory Study
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2015
   Justin B. Hollander and Henry Renski

   The goal of this working paper is to introduce a new breed of powerful software tools and social media data that can be used to study the attitudes of people in urban places. In particular, the paper...

4. Where Do Property Rights Matter More?

   Explaining the Variation in Demand for Property Titles Across Cities in Mexico
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2015
   Paavo Monkkonen

   Existing empirical research has established that stronger legal claims to property in urban areas have significant market value, but previous studies examine this question in a single city or market...

5. What Drives Neighborhood Trajectories in Legacy Cities?

   Understanding the Dynamics of Change
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Dezembro 2015
   Alan Mallach

   This paper explores the dynamics of neighborhood change in legacy cities in the United States through a review of salient research and an analysis of neighborhood characteristics and trends in a...

6. Monitoring the Share of Land in Streets

   Public Works and the Quality of Global Urban Expansion
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2015
   Shlomo Angel

   Whether it is microhousing for hipsters in Seattle, high-rises for the upwardly mobile in Beijing, or informal settlements on the fringe of Nairobi, the expansion of urban areas is poorly monitored...

7. Climate Change and U.S. Cities

   Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptations
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2015
   William Solecki

   William Solecki examines the challenge climate change creates for city planning complicated by the fact that barring serious intervention, some urban land may eventually be underwater. Climate change...

8. The Past and Future of the Urban Property Tax

   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2015
   Grant Driessen and Steven Sheffrin

   For U.S. cities, the property tax is the single largest source of own-source revenue, but the extent to which different cities rely on property tax revenues varies significantly. Grant Driessen and...

9. Foreclosures and Neighborhoods

   The Shape and Impacts of the U.S. Mortgage Crisis
   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2015
   Dan Immergluck

   This paper explores the root cause of municipal fiscal stress and documents the effects of foreclosures in the United States. The author, Dan Immergluck, examines the household- and neighborhood-...

10. An Evaluation of China’s Land Policy and Urban Housing Markets

    Artigos de Conferências
    Novembro 2015
    Joyce Y. Man

    In this paper, Joyce Y. Man examines the evolution of Chinese housing policies and the growth of the Chinese housing market since the reforms of 1998, when the Chinese government ended its...