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, ...

The community land trust movement is young but expanding rapidly. Nearly 20 CLTs are started every year as either new nonprofits or as programs or subsidiaries of existing organizations. Fueling this proliferation is a dramatic increase in local government investment and involvement. Over the past decade, a growing number of cities and counties have chosen not only to support existing CLT s, but also to start new ones, actively guiding their development and sponsoring their affordable housing initiatives.

Linking the worlds of community development, higher education administration and urban design, this accessible guidebook offers useful information on how universities and communities can best develop partnership projects. Its focus on smart growth projects further enhances its value for those interested in how urban, suburban and rural growth can be accommodated while preserving open spaces and quality of life.

Edited by Wim Wiewel and Gerrit-Jan Knaap, Partnerships for Smart Growth includes 13 c...

Pagos en lugar de impuestos: La experiencia de Boston

Ronald W. Rakow

Históricamente, las comunidades con alta concentración de instituciones sin fines de lucro, como hospitales, universidades y museos, han tenido que enfrentar problemas fiscales debido a la menor base gravable por la presencia de estas propiedades exentas de impuestos.

Para Boston, Massachusetts, este impacto ha sido particularmente severo, dada la preponderancia de propiedades exentas de impuestos combinada con una ...

Correction: Under the heading "Experience from the First Year," the percent increase in FY2012 over what was collected in FY2011 under the previous PILOT program was incorrectly reported. The correct percentage is 28.4. Both the PDF and text version below list the correct amount.


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 w...

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...