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Back to the Future
The Working Cities Challenge Helps MA Cities Rebuild on Industrial Pasts
By Billy Hamilton
October 2015, English
Holyoke, a city of about 40,000 in western Massachusetts, was one of the nation’s first planned industrial communities. Beginning in the late 1840s, Boston investors transformed what had been a farming area into a mill town, taking advantage of its location along the Connecticut River. The investors wanted to manufacture cotton textiles. But over time […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Public Finance, Urbanization
October 2015, English
Holyoke, a city of about 40,000 in western Massachusetts, was one of the nation’s first planned industrial communities. Beginning in the late 1840s, Boston investors transformed what had been a farming area into a mill town, taking advantage of its location along the Connecticut River. The investors wanted to manufacture cotton textiles. But over time […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Public Finance, Urbanization
Tecnociudad
Chattanooga—La gigaciudad
October 2015, Spanish
El acceso universal a internet de alta velocidad es un sueño generalizado en estos tiempos. Todos, desde el presidente de Google, Inc. hasta cualquiera de nosotros, lo hemos anhelado. Y la prensa tecnológica se inunda de irritadas críticas, preguntándose por qué las velocidades de banda ancha habituales en los Estados Unidos están tan retrasadas con […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
October 2015, Spanish
El acceso universal a internet de alta velocidad es un sueño generalizado en estos tiempos. Todos, desde el presidente de Google, Inc. hasta cualquiera de nosotros, lo hemos anhelado. Y la prensa tecnológica se inunda de irritadas críticas, preguntándose por qué las velocidades de banda ancha habituales en los Estados Unidos están tan retrasadas con […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
City Tech
Chattanooga’s Big Gig
By Rob Walker
October 2015, English
Universal high-speed Internet access is a popular dream these days—everyone from the president to Google, Inc., has embraced it. And the tech press is full of testy critiques wondering why typical broadband speeds in the United States lag so far behind those in, say, South Korea. Just five years ago, this wasn’t such a hot […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
October 2015, English
Universal high-speed Internet access is a popular dream these days—everyone from the president to Google, Inc., has embraced it. And the tech press is full of testy critiques wondering why typical broadband speeds in the United States lag so far behind those in, say, South Korea. Just five years ago, this wasn’t such a hot […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
La trazabilidad del progreso
PolicyMap democratiza el análisis de datos
Alex Ulam
October 2015, Spanish
El precio de la vivienda está subiendo en espiral en muchas áreas de los estados unidos, limitando la capacidad de los estadounidenses para ahorrar, y llevando al aburguesamiento a barrios que antes eran asequibles. No obstante, como con muchos desafíos de política pública, no siempre se puede determinar a simple vista dónde se encuentran los […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Technology and Tools
October 2015, Spanish
El precio de la vivienda está subiendo en espiral en muchas áreas de los estados unidos, limitando la capacidad de los estadounidenses para ahorrar, y llevando al aburguesamiento a barrios que antes eran asequibles. No obstante, como con muchos desafíos de política pública, no siempre se puede determinar a simple vista dónde se encuentran los […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Technology and Tools
Charting Progress
PolicyMap Democratizes Data Analysis
By Alex Ulam
October 2015, English
Housing costs are spiraling upward in many areas throughout the United States, cutting down on the ability of Americans to save and leading to the gentrification of formerly affordable neighborhoods. However, as with many public policy challenges, it is not always immediately apparent where problems are the most acute. This became clear to Helen Campbell, […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Technology and Tools
October 2015, English
Housing costs are spiraling upward in many areas throughout the United States, cutting down on the ability of Americans to save and leading to the gentrification of formerly affordable neighborhoods. However, as with many public policy challenges, it is not always immediately apparent where problems are the most acute. This became clear to Helen Campbell, […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Technology and Tools
Perfil académico
Zhi Liu
October 2015, Spanish
El fortalecimiento de la salud fiscal municipal en China Desde el año 2013, Zhi Liu se ha desempeñado como investigador senior y director del Programa para China del Instituto Lincoln de Políticas de Suelo. También es director del Centro para el Desarrollo Urbano y Políticas de Suelo de la Universidad de Pekín y el Instituto […]
Economic Development, Property Tax, Public Finance, Urbanization
October 2015, Spanish
El fortalecimiento de la salud fiscal municipal en China Desde el año 2013, Zhi Liu se ha desempeñado como investigador senior y director del Programa para China del Instituto Lincoln de Políticas de Suelo. También es director del Centro para el Desarrollo Urbano y Políticas de Suelo de la Universidad de Pekín y el Instituto […]
Economic Development, Property Tax, Public Finance, Urbanization
Faculty Profile
Zhi Liu
October 2015, English
Strengthening Municipal Fiscal Health in China Since 2013, Zhi Liu has been a senior research fellow and director of the China Program at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and director of the Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy (PLC). Prior, Zhi was lead infrastructure specialist at the World Bank, where […]
Economic Development, Property Tax, Public Finance, Urbanization
October 2015, English
Strengthening Municipal Fiscal Health in China Since 2013, Zhi Liu has been a senior research fellow and director of the China Program at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and director of the Peking University–Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy (PLC). Prior, Zhi was lead infrastructure specialist at the World Bank, where […]
Economic Development, Property Tax, Public Finance, Urbanization
Nuevo informe sobre enfoque en políticas de suelo
Vivienda inclusiva
October 2015, Spanish
Vivienda inclusiva: La creación y el mantenimiento de comunidades equitativas Por Rick Jacobus En diferentes ciudades, como Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, y Portland, Maine, se ha desatado un debate sobre la vivienda inclusiva, es decir, el requisito de que los desarrolladores reserven un porcentaje de los nuevos desarrollos residenciales para viviendas asequibles. Algunos sostienen que […]
Housing, Land and Property Rights, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
October 2015, Spanish
Vivienda inclusiva: La creación y el mantenimiento de comunidades equitativas Por Rick Jacobus En diferentes ciudades, como Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, y Portland, Maine, se ha desatado un debate sobre la vivienda inclusiva, es decir, el requisito de que los desarrolladores reserven un porcentaje de los nuevos desarrollos residenciales para viviendas asequibles. Algunos sostienen que […]
Housing, Land and Property Rights, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
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