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Land as a Strategic Factor for Urban Development in the State of Mexico
Fernando Rojas and Alfonso Iracheta
September 1997, English
Mexico is beginning to create an enabling environment to use land value increments for development purposes. Recent constitutional and legal reforms have authorized the clarification of land titling as well as the commercialization of land. Real estate markets are gradually superseding the immobile land tenure arrangements that gave rise to informal markets characterized by confusing […]
Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
September 1997, English
Mexico is beginning to create an enabling environment to use land value increments for development purposes. Recent constitutional and legal reforms have authorized the clarification of land titling as well as the commercialization of land. Real estate markets are gradually superseding the immobile land tenure arrangements that gave rise to informal markets characterized by confusing […]
Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
Monitoreo del suelo urbano y de los mercados de construcción
Pablo Trivelli
September 1997, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 1 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En abril se reunió en Chile un grupo de expertos, funcionarios y asesores fiscales latinoamericanos que se encargan de monitorear los sistemas de información de los mercados urbanos […]
Land Markets, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
September 1997, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 1 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En abril se reunió en Chile un grupo de expertos, funcionarios y asesores fiscales latinoamericanos que se encargan de monitorear los sistemas de información de los mercados urbanos […]
Land Markets, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
Monitoring Urban Land and Building Markets
Pablo Trivelli
September 1997, English
A group of Latin American scholars, practitioners and government officials who monitor urban market information systems and publish statistical reports on market behavior met in Chile in April to share their experiences and explore plans for future cooperation. Representatives came from Mexico City; San Salvador, El Salvador; Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; […]
Land Markets, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
September 1997, English
A group of Latin American scholars, practitioners and government officials who monitor urban market information systems and publish statistical reports on market behavior met in Chile in April to share their experiences and explore plans for future cooperation. Representatives came from Mexico City; San Salvador, El Salvador; Sao Paulo and Porto Alegre, Brazil; Montevideo, Uruguay; […]
Land Markets, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
La tierra como factor estratégico para el desarrollo urbano en el Estado de México
Fernando Rojas and Alfonso Iracheta
September 1997, 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. México está comenzando a crear un entorno propicio para utilizar las plusvalías para fines del desarrollo. Las recientes reformas constitucionales y jurídicas han permitido un proceso más claro […]
Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
September 1997, 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. México está comenzando a crear un entorno propicio para utilizar las plusvalías para fines del desarrollo. Las recientes reformas constitucionales y jurídicas han permitido un proceso más claro […]
Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
Model Solutions to Revitalize Urban Industrial Areas
J. Thomas Black
September 1997, English
Most urban areas are experiencing significant disinvestment in older industrial-warehouse areas, along with a net loss of employment, tax base and related activity. The few recent surveys done to measure vacant industrial land suggest that, in Northeastern and Midwestern cities, 15 to 20 percent of industrial sites are inactive. In major cities such as Chicago […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
September 1997, English
Most urban areas are experiencing significant disinvestment in older industrial-warehouse areas, along with a net loss of employment, tax base and related activity. The few recent surveys done to measure vacant industrial land suggest that, in Northeastern and Midwestern cities, 15 to 20 percent of industrial sites are inactive. In major cities such as Chicago […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
Planificación y preservación participativas en La Habana
Ann LeRoyer and Mario Coyula
July 1997, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 6 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Preguntas y respuestas con Mario Coyula P: ¿A qué se debe la reputación que tiene La Habana por sus hermosos edificios y barrios antiguos? R: Hace más de […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
July 1997, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 6 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Preguntas y respuestas con Mario Coyula P: ¿A qué se debe la reputación que tiene La Habana por sus hermosos edificios y barrios antiguos? R: Hace más de […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
Land Reform and Taxation in Estonia
Attiat Otto
July 1997, English
The introduction of a market-oriented economic policy in Estonia after independence in 1991 set the stage for a plethora of reforms to restore property rights and establish a price system for goods, labor, capital and land. Land and ownership reforms had two goals: the restoration to former owners of land “unlawfully expropriated” during the Soviet […]
Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Local Government, Valuation
July 1997, English
The introduction of a market-oriented economic policy in Estonia after independence in 1991 set the stage for a plethora of reforms to restore property rights and establish a price system for goods, labor, capital and land. Land and ownership reforms had two goals: the restoration to former owners of land “unlawfully expropriated” during the Soviet […]
Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Local Government, Valuation
Participatory Planning and Preservation in Havana
Ann LeRoyer and Mario Coyula
July 1997, English
Q & A with Mario Coyula Q. Why is Havana so acclaimed for its beautiful old buildings and neighborhoods? A. More than two hundred years ago Havana was the preeminent city in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean basin. Established as a service-oriented Spanish colonial settlement, the city spread west and southwest from its […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
July 1997, English
Q & A with Mario Coyula Q. Why is Havana so acclaimed for its beautiful old buildings and neighborhoods? A. More than two hundred years ago Havana was the preeminent city in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean basin. Established as a service-oriented Spanish colonial settlement, the city spread west and southwest from its […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
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