Making Sense of Place Film Series A documentary film and educational outreach project launched by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Making Sense of Place – Phoenix: The Urban Desert

Policy Research: Economic/Land/Social Policy

The following sites and organizations are dedicated to the dissemination of their research to the public interested in economic, land and social policy of the metropolitan United States.

Brookings Institution - Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy
	www.brookings.org/dybdocroot/es/urban/urban.htm Seeks to shape a new generation of urban policies that will help build strong neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan regions. In partnership with academics, private and public sector leaders, and locally-elected officials, informs about the impact of government policies, private sector actions, and national trends on cities and their metropolitan areas. Provides full reports, works in progress, and speeches on the site.

Center for Urban Policy Research (CUPR)
	www.policy.rutgers.edu/cupr/index1.htm Provides research, projects and publications in the areas of affordable housing, land use policy, the arts and cultural policy, development impact analysis, the costs of sprawl, transportation information systems, environmental impacts, and community economic development. Developed a wide array of fiscal, environmental, transportation, and quality of life impact models that have been used in major public policy evaluations throughout the United States.

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
	www.lincolninst.edu Provides searchable database of publications, courses and bimonthly newsletter. The Lincoln Institute's goals are to integrate theory and practice to better shape land policy and to share understanding about the multidisciplinary forces that influence public policy. Does not take a particular point of view, but rather serves as a catalyst to facilitate analysis and discussion of these issues-to make a difference today and to help policy makers plan for tomorrow. Contains three departments - Valuation and Taxation, Planning and Development, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

The Urban Institute
	www.urban.org A non-partisan economic and social policy research organization that examines the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation. It provides information and analysis to public and private decision makers to help them address these challenges and strives to raise citizen understanding of these issues and tradeoffs in policy making. Focuses on writing articles and reports around the following issues: education, health, income/benefits, developing countries, labor and social policy, metropolitan housing and communities, nonprofits and philanthropy, population studies and tax policy. Articles and reports available on site.

Urban Land Institute
	www.uli.org Community of land and real estate professionals engaging in the entrepreneurial and collaborative process of real estate development and land use policy-making. Provides information in the form of periodicals, case studies, and books through the research portal, access to member experts through the expert portal, and education through conferences and continuing education classes through the planet portal.