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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

Rob Walker

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