The Lincoln Institute's 2009 Publications catalog features more than 100 books, policy focus reports, and multimedia resources. These publications represent the work of Institute faculty, fellows, and associates who are researching and reporting on a wide rage of topics in valuation and taxation, planning and smart growth, land conservation, urban development, and other land policy concerns in the United States, Latin America, Europe, China, South Africa, and other areas.

The Lincoln Institute's annual Program for 2010–2011 presents a comprehensive overview of the Institute's mission and its expanding diversity of programs for this academic year. It includes department descriptions; courses, seminars, conferences, and online education programs; research, demonstration, and evaluation projects; Web-based resources and tools; publications and multimedia products; and fellows, lecturers, and researchers.

The Lincoln Institute’s work is organized in three departments: Valuati...

The Lincoln Institute's annual Program for 2011–2012 presents a comprehensive overview of the Institute's mission and its expanding diversity of programs for this academic year. It includes department descriptions; courses, seminars, conferences, and online education programs; research, demonstration, and evaluation projects; Web-based resources and tools; publications and multimedia products; and fellows, lecturers, and researchers.

The Lincoln Institute’s work is organized in three departments: Valuati...

The Lincoln Institute's annual Program for 2012-2013 presents a comprehensive overview of the Institute's mission and its diverse programs for the new academic year. It includes department descriptions; courses, seminars, conferences, and online education programs; research, demonstration, and evaluation projects; publications and multimedia products; web-based resources and tools; and lists of fellows and faculty.

The complete Program is posted on the Lincoln Institute website for free downloading. To ...

Continuing their Lincoln Institute–sponsored research on the role of universities in urban development, Wim Wiewel and David C. Perry have edited this book on global universities to complement their previous volume on U.S. institutions, The University as Urban Developer: Case Studies and Analysis (M.E. Sharpe and Lincoln Institute, 2005).

This work is part of the Institute’s City, Land, and The University project to improve the collective capacity of leaders to achieve the multiple interests of cities, ...

New Lincoln Institute Book
The Community Land Trust Reader


The Community Land Trust Reader brings together for the first time the seminal texts that inspired and defined the CLT. Selections trace the intellectual origins of an eclectic model of tenure that was shaped by the social theories of Henry George, Ebenezer Howard, Ralph Borsodi, and Arthur Morgan, and by social experiments like the Garden Cities of England and the Gramdan villages of India.

The community land trust arrived quietly ...

New Policy Focus Report Announcement, Town–Gown Collaboration in Land Use and Development

The foreclosure crisis and its impact on the U.S. economy seem far from abating as mortgage delinquencies and foreclosure filings continue to climb. According to RealtyTrac, a total of 2.8 million properties had foreclosure filings during 2009, or one out of every 45 residences. That foreclosure rate was 21 percent higher than in 2008 and 120 percent higher than in 2007. Maintaining home ownership has proven to be a tenuous, if not impossible, proposition for many homeowners.

Some researchers, polic...

Payments in Lieu of Taxes: The Boston Experience

Ronald W. Rakow

Historically communities with high concentrations of nonprofit institutions such as hospitals, colleges, and museums have struggled with the reduced tax base associated with these tax-exempt properties. For Boston, Massachusetts, the preponderance of tax-exempt property, combined with a high reliance on the property tax for local revenue, has made this impact particularly acute. Beginning in the early 1970s, Boston began se...

Nearly 4,000 cities on our planet today have populations of 100,000 people or more. We know their names, locations, and approximate populations from maps and other data sources, but there is little comparable knowledge about all these cities, and none that can be described as rigorously scientific. Planet of Cities together with its companion volume, Atlas of Urban Expansion, contributes to developing a science of citi...

University-based property development is an important element of urban formation. Yet there is little information available to explain the significance of the university presence in urban development and enhance the state of the practice.

Integrating topics in urban development, real estate, higher education administration, urban design and campus landscape architecture, this is the first book to explore the role of the university as urban developer. Accessible and clearly written, and including contribu...

Institutions of higher education are entering a new era. Once considered enclaves of intellectual pursuit, they now play a much broader role in their neighborhoods and cities. The character of communities near expanding educational institutions drives a need for collaboration between public officials and school administrators.

The evolution of universities increases the impact on real estate, land and economic development in their surrounding community. They have become anchor institutions and key p...

Universities are involved in the development of their immediate neighborhoods for a variety of reasons. For some, it is a matter of self-preservation and marketing, as neighborhood deterioration and disinvestment can negatively affect student enrollments. Other institutions are driven primarily by the need for new or updated facilities, such as laboratories, classrooms, student housing or athletic fields, which require expansion beyond existing campus boundaries, or by a long-standing commitment to neighbor...