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1. Vacant and Abandoned Property

   Remedies for Acquisition and Redevelopment
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Lavea Brachman

   In June the Lincoln Institute convened a roundtable of experts from around the country to examine how and why property ownership and title problems exacerbate abandonment. The group debated the...

2. Urban Land and Housing Challenges in Brazil

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Heather Boyer

   The Lincoln Institute has been collaborating with the Loeb Fellowship Program at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 1998. The Loeb Fellowship was established in 1970 through the...

3. From the President

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Gregory K. Ingram

   The Lincoln Institute has long been involved in international activities that deal with land policy and land taxation issues. In the 1970s those activities focused mainly on training and education....

4. Connections Between Economic Development and Land Taxation

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Jeffrey Chapman and Rex L. Facer II

   Recent court decisions have made economic development and tax policy front-page news. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London raised a public outcry when it allowed local...

5. Faculty Profile

   C. Lowell Harriss
   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005

   C. Lowell Harriss is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught economics from 1938 until his retirement in 1981. He then served as executive director of the Academy of Political...

6. Desafíos de suelo urbano y vivienda en Brasil

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Heather Boyer

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. El Lincoln Institute ha...

7. Land Lines, October 2005

   Revista Land Lines
   Outubro 2005
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue explores the relationships between economic development, infrastructure, and land taxation in the U.S.; informal settlements, and overall land and housing challenges, in Brazil’s Rio...

8. Reinventing Conservation Easements

   A Critical Examination and Ideas for Reform
   Informes sobre Políticas Fundiárias
   Setembro 2005
   Jeff Pidot

   Conservation easements represent one of the most rapid trends in land conservation. Beyond tax credits, tax deductions, and other public subsidies that provide financial incentive for landowners to...

9. From the President

   Revista Land Lines
   Julho 2005
   Gregory K. Ingram

   Education, training, research, and dissemination have been the instruments used most frequently by the Lincoln Institute to achieve its goals of expanding and making available its knowledge of land...

10. America's Megapolitan Areas

    Revista Land Lines
    Julho 2005
    Robert E. Lang and Dawn Dhavale

    Megapolitan areas are integrated networks of metro- and micropolitan areas. The name “megapolitan” plays off Jean Gottmann’s 1961 “megalopolis” label by using the same prefix. We find that the United...