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Land Use Expansion in Bogota
Can It Be Controlled?
Carolina Barco de Botero and Ralph Gakenheimer
March 1999, English
The complex demographic, geographic and economic pressures on land use patterns make managing urban growth a difficult challenge throughout the world. This is especially evident in rapidly developing Latin American cities that are outgrowing their boundaries and must work collaboratively with surrounding towns in a political climate that is not generally conducive to metropolitan government. […]
March 1999, English
The complex demographic, geographic and economic pressures on land use patterns make managing urban growth a difficult challenge throughout the world. This is especially evident in rapidly developing Latin American cities that are outgrowing their boundaries and must work collaboratively with surrounding towns in a political climate that is not generally conducive to metropolitan government. […]
Introducing Value-based Property Taxation in Poland
Jane Malme and Dennis Robinson
March 1999, English
As a next step in the economic reforms begun in the post-Soviet period, momentum is growing in Poland for the introduction of a property tax based on market value. The recently established Department of Local Government Taxes and Cadastre within the Ministry of Finance is responsible for carrying out the reforms, and has invited the […]
Economic Development, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax, Public Finance
March 1999, English
As a next step in the economic reforms begun in the post-Soviet period, momentum is growing in Poland for the introduction of a property tax based on market value. The recently established Department of Local Government Taxes and Cadastre within the Ministry of Finance is responsible for carrying out the reforms, and has invited the […]
Economic Development, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax, Public Finance
Land Lines, March 1999
Edited by Ann LeRoyer
March 1999, English
Economic Development, Land Use and Zoning, Poverty and Inequality, Property Tax, Public Finance, Urbanization
March 1999, English
Economic Development, Land Use and Zoning, Poverty and Inequality, Property Tax, Public Finance, Urbanization
The Potential for a Property Tax in Bosnia and Herzegovina
C. Kurt Zorn, Jean Tesche, and Gary C. Cornia
March 1999, English
Working Paper
Local Government, Property Tax
March 1999, English
Working Paper
Local Government, Property Tax
Smart Growth for the Bluegrass Region
Jean Scott and Peter Pollock
January 1999, English
Like many fast-growing areas across the country, the Bluegrass region of central Kentucky is dealing with two complementary growth management issues: How to manage growth that takes place within the 40-year-old urban growth boundary around Lexington and in the smaller cities and towns of the surrounding counties; How to best preserve the unique rural character […]
City and Regional Planning, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
January 1999, English
Like many fast-growing areas across the country, the Bluegrass region of central Kentucky is dealing with two complementary growth management issues: How to manage growth that takes place within the 40-year-old urban growth boundary around Lexington and in the smaller cities and towns of the surrounding counties; How to best preserve the unique rural character […]
City and Regional Planning, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
Globalization, Structural Change and Urban Land Management
David E. Dowall
January 1999, English
Cities in Latin America, Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe are being virtually transformed by inflows of capital in ways that urban land use planners never thought possible. These cities desperately need to develop and implement urban land management systems to maximize the social as well as private benefits of globalization. This article looks at […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Environment, Land Use and Zoning
January 1999, English
Cities in Latin America, Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe are being virtually transformed by inflows of capital in ways that urban land use planners never thought possible. These cities desperately need to develop and implement urban land management systems to maximize the social as well as private benefits of globalization. This article looks at […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Environment, Land Use and Zoning
La tierra vacante en América Latina
January 1999, 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. La tierra vacante(1) y su integración al mercado de tierras urbanas son temas raramente investigados en América Latina. Los estudios publicados al respecto tienden a limitarse a los […]
Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
January 1999, 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. La tierra vacante(1) y su integración al mercado de tierras urbanas son temas raramente investigados en América Latina. Los estudios publicados al respecto tienden a limitarse a los […]
Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
Vacant Land in Latin American Cities
January 1999, English
Vacant land and its integration into the urban land market are topics rarely investigated in Latin America. The existing literature tends to focus only on descriptive aspects (i.e., number and size of lots). In the current context of profound economic and social transformations and changing supply and demand patterns of land in cities, the perception […]
Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
January 1999, English
Vacant land and its integration into the urban land market are topics rarely investigated in Latin America. The existing literature tends to focus only on descriptive aspects (i.e., number and size of lots). In the current context of profound economic and social transformations and changing supply and demand patterns of land in cities, the perception […]
Land Markets, Land Use and Zoning, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
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