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November 2007, English
Catastro multifinalitario aplicado a la definición de políticas de suelo urbano
November 2007, Spanish
November 2007, Spanish
October 2007, English
Message from the President
Community Land Trusts
October 2007, English
Community land trusts provide affordable housing by separating the value of land from the value of buildings. Households pay for only the building or dwelling unit, and the CLT retains ownership of the land in this form of shared equity housing. When the household sells, the CLT typically has the right to repurchase the unit […]
October 2007, English
Community land trusts provide affordable housing by separating the value of land from the value of buildings. Households pay for only the building or dwelling unit, and the CLT retains ownership of the land in this form of shared equity housing. When the household sells, the CLT typically has the right to repurchase the unit […]
Post-Apartheid Johannesburg
A Work in Progress
October 2007, English
Post-apartheid South Africa is an experiment the like of which the world has never seen before,says Myesha Jenkins, performance poet from Los Angeles who emigrated in 1993, the year before Nelson Mandella became president. “We want this experiment to work.” Taxi-driver Vincent from the northern province of Limpopo, speaking of the elections that will take […]
October 2007, English
Post-apartheid South Africa is an experiment the like of which the world has never seen before,says Myesha Jenkins, performance poet from Los Angeles who emigrated in 1993, the year before Nelson Mandella became president. “We want this experiment to work.” Taxi-driver Vincent from the northern province of Limpopo, speaking of the elections that will take […]
Navigating State and Local Finance
October 2007, English
Past trends will not foretell the future, but charting how state and local finances weathered the 2001 recession suggests viable ways to navigate going forward. Lacking the deficit finance ability of the federal government, states and localities must set a spending course based on anticipated taxes and revenues. An unexpected crisis-like the stock bubble burst […]
October 2007, English
Past trends will not foretell the future, but charting how state and local finances weathered the 2001 recession suggests viable ways to navigate going forward. Lacking the deficit finance ability of the federal government, states and localities must set a spending course based on anticipated taxes and revenues. An unexpected crisis-like the stock bubble burst […]
Impactos de las regulaciones en los precios de suelo no urbanizado
El caso de estudio de Bogotá
October 2007, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Las regulaciones urbanas en América Latina que crean beneficios para los terratenientes en forma de mayores ganancias suelen ser bien recibidas, especialmente por los que tienen tierras donde […]
October 2007, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Las regulaciones urbanas en América Latina que crean beneficios para los terratenientes en forma de mayores ganancias suelen ser bien recibidas, especialmente por los que tienen tierras donde […]
Impacts of Regulations on Undeveloped Land Prices
A Case Study of Bogota
October 2007, English
Urban regulations in Latin America that create benefits to landowners as increased gains are usually welcomed, especially by those who own land where more benefits have been concentrated; for example, when zoning plants authorize development in one area but restrain it in another, or when building codes stimulate a type of housing but condone the […]
October 2007, English
Urban regulations in Latin America that create benefits to landowners as increased gains are usually welcomed, especially by those who own land where more benefits have been concentrated; for example, when zoning plants authorize development in one area but restrain it in another, or when building codes stimulate a type of housing but condone the […]
