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International Forum on Regularization and Land Markets
July 1998, English
Scholars and practitioners involved with the regularization of low-income settlements in Latin America shared their experiences in a forum sponsored by the Lincoln Institute last March and hosted by the City of Medellín and its regularization office, PRIMED (Integrated Program for the Improvement of Subnormal Barrios in Medellín). Participants included representatives from PRIMED, Medellín city […]
Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Urbanization
July 1998, English
Scholars and practitioners involved with the regularization of low-income settlements in Latin America shared their experiences in a forum sponsored by the Lincoln Institute last March and hosted by the City of Medellín and its regularization office, PRIMED (Integrated Program for the Improvement of Subnormal Barrios in Medellín). Participants included representatives from PRIMED, Medellín city […]
Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Urbanization
La recuperación de plusvalías ‘socialmente creadas’ en Colombia
William A. Doebele
July 1998, 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. El 18 de julio de 1997 el Congreso de la República de Colombia aprobó una innovadora Ley de Desarrollo Territorial con objetivos ambiciosos que permiten que los municipios […]
City and Regional Planning, Land and Property Rights, Urbanization, Valuation
July 1998, 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. El 18 de julio de 1997 el Congreso de la República de Colombia aprobó una innovadora Ley de Desarrollo Territorial con objetivos ambiciosos que permiten que los municipios […]
City and Regional Planning, Land and Property Rights, Urbanization, Valuation
The Recovery of ‘Socially Created’ Land Values in Colombia
William A. Doebele
July 1998, English
On July 18, 1997, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia passed an innovative new Law of Land Development with ambitious goals for permitting municipalities to recover socially created land values, known in Spanish as plusvalía. Specifically, Law 388 declares that the public has a right “to participate” in increases in land values created when […]
City and Regional Planning, Land and Property Rights, Urbanization, Valuation
July 1998, English
On July 18, 1997, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia passed an innovative new Law of Land Development with ambitious goals for permitting municipalities to recover socially created land values, known in Spanish as plusvalía. Specifically, Law 388 declares that the public has a right “to participate” in increases in land values created when […]
City and Regional Planning, Land and Property Rights, Urbanization, Valuation
Transportation and Land Use
Alex Anas
July 1998, English
The complexity that characterizes the interaction of transportation and land use in urban areas is matched by the variety of the disciplines called on to address these issues, including economics, urban planning and civil engineering. In recent decades, communication among scholars in these disciplines has improved and the acceptance of a common base of theory […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
July 1998, English
The complexity that characterizes the interaction of transportation and land use in urban areas is matched by the variety of the disciplines called on to address these issues, including economics, urban planning and civil engineering. In recent decades, communication among scholars in these disciplines has improved and the acceptance of a common base of theory […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
Land Lines, July 1998
Edited by Ann LeRoyer
July 1998, English
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Urbanization
July 1998, English
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Urbanization
The Taxation of Real Property in Asia
Alven Lam
May 1998, English
The recent fiscal crisis in Asia has affected systems of taxation and land use regulation throughout the region. The situation in Korea is typical. A series of collapses of large conglomerates led to a severe economic crisis, with 5.5 percent of total loans in default by the end of 1997. Currency and stock indexes fell […]
Land Use and Zoning, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax, Public Finance
May 1998, English
The recent fiscal crisis in Asia has affected systems of taxation and land use regulation throughout the region. The situation in Korea is typical. A series of collapses of large conglomerates led to a severe economic crisis, with 5.5 percent of total loans in default by the end of 1997. Currency and stock indexes fell […]
Land Use and Zoning, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax, Public Finance
La Regularización de la Tierra Urbana en Perú
May 1998, 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 el área metropolitana de Lima, el acceso a la tierra urbana por parte de los sectores populares presenta un historial de problemas que son resultado de la […]
Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning
May 1998, 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 el área metropolitana de Lima, el acceso a la tierra urbana por parte de los sectores populares presenta un historial de problemas que son resultado de la […]
Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning
Regularization of Urban Land in Peru
May 1998, English
Access to urban land by the popular sectors in metropolitan Lima has a troubled history resulting from the combination of spontaneous, unregulated land occupation and short-sighted policies to regularize land tenancy. Policies that were designed to resolve or mitigate irregular occupations have instead exacerbated the problem. A workshop on “Local Governments and the Management of […]
Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning
May 1998, English
Access to urban land by the popular sectors in metropolitan Lima has a troubled history resulting from the combination of spontaneous, unregulated land occupation and short-sighted policies to regularize land tenancy. Policies that were designed to resolve or mitigate irregular occupations have instead exacerbated the problem. A workshop on “Local Governments and the Management of […]
Informal Settlements, Land and Property Rights, Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning
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