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Italy in Transition
New Approaches to Planning
Francesca Leder
March 2000, English
The urban landscape typical of many small and medium-sized Italian cities is filled with historical richness but also with more recent incoherent and contradictory development patterns. As a result, planners are actively adopting new ideas and theories about urban planning and are studying policies and practices about open space from colleagues in other countries. The […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Land Use and Zoning, Local Government
March 2000, English
The urban landscape typical of many small and medium-sized Italian cities is filled with historical richness but also with more recent incoherent and contradictory development patterns. As a result, planners are actively adopting new ideas and theories about urban planning and are studying policies and practices about open space from colleagues in other countries. The […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Land Use and Zoning, Local Government
Using Land Value to Promote Development in Cuba
Ricardo Nuñez, H. James Brown, and Martim Smolka
March 2000, English
Researchers from the Lincoln Institute are working with the Group for the Integrated Development of the Capital (GDIC) in Havana to better understand how land and increments in land value can be utilized to facilitate the physical rehabilitation and economic development of Cuba. During the Soviet era, Cuba’s economic environment was characterized by a top-down […]
Economic Development, Land Markets, Public Finance, Valuation
March 2000, English
Researchers from the Lincoln Institute are working with the Group for the Integrated Development of the Capital (GDIC) in Havana to better understand how land and increments in land value can be utilized to facilitate the physical rehabilitation and economic development of Cuba. During the Soviet era, Cuba’s economic environment was characterized by a top-down […]
Economic Development, Land Markets, Public Finance, Valuation
Desafíos para implementar la “participación en plusvalías” en Colombia
Carolina Barco de Botero and Martim Smolka
March 2000, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 4 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Los instrumentos de captura de plusvalía, aunque difíciles de aplicar, son ampliamente reconocidos como mecanismos beneficiosos de planificación fiscal. En América Latina, Colombia se ha destacado por su […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Land Markets, Local Government
March 2000, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 4 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Los instrumentos de captura de plusvalía, aunque difíciles de aplicar, son ampliamente reconocidos como mecanismos beneficiosos de planificación fiscal. En América Latina, Colombia se ha destacado por su […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Land Markets, Local Government
Acceso al suelo, impuestos locales y financiamiento del desarrollo urbano
El caso de Santiago de Chile
Camilo Arriagada Luco and Daniela Simioni
January 2000, Spanish
Working Paper
January 2000, Spanish
Working Paper
The Land Market Deregulation Debate in Chile
Martim O. Smolka and Francisco Sabatini
January 2000, English
Few places in Latin America, or in the rest of the world, have dared to implement such radical urban land policy reforms as Chile has over the last 20 years. In 1979, the government began initiating deregulation policies by releasing a document that stated that the scarcity of land was artificially produced by excessive regulation, […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets, Urbanization
January 2000, English
Few places in Latin America, or in the rest of the world, have dared to implement such radical urban land policy reforms as Chile has over the last 20 years. In 1979, the government began initiating deregulation policies by releasing a document that stated that the scarcity of land was artificially produced by excessive regulation, […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets, Urbanization
El debate sobre la liberalización del mercado de suelo en Chile
Martim O. Smolka and Francisco Sabatini
January 2000, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 5 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Pocos países de América Latina (o del resto del mundo) se han atrevido a poner en práctica reformas tan radicales de la política de tierras urbanas como lo […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets, Urbanization
January 2000, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 5 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Pocos países de América Latina (o del resto del mundo) se han atrevido a poner en práctica reformas tan radicales de la política de tierras urbanas como lo […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Land Markets, Urbanization
Property Tax Classification in Cook County, Illinois
Scott Koeneman
January 2000, English
Conventional wisdom and basic economic principles would suggest that an area subject to higher commercial and industrial property taxes than its nearby neighbors will suffer reduced economic development in comparison to those neighbors. On the other hand, any effort to reduce such unequal or “classified” property tax rates will produce a revenue shortfall. Raising taxes […]
Economic Development, Local Government, Property Tax, Valuation
January 2000, English
Conventional wisdom and basic economic principles would suggest that an area subject to higher commercial and industrial property taxes than its nearby neighbors will suffer reduced economic development in comparison to those neighbors. On the other hand, any effort to reduce such unequal or “classified” property tax rates will produce a revenue shortfall. Raising taxes […]
Economic Development, Local Government, Property Tax, Valuation
Redefinición de los derechos de propiedad en la era de la liberalización y la privatización
November 1999, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 2 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En países subdesarrollados, la mayoría de los programas y propuestas de gestión urbana han requerido adoptar un criterio de orientación social a los derechos de propiedad, lo que […]
Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
November 1999, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 2 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En países subdesarrollados, la mayoría de los programas y propuestas de gestión urbana han requerido adoptar un criterio de orientación social a los derechos de propiedad, lo que […]
Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
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