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Effects of Urban Density on Rail Transit
Judy S. Davis and Samuel Seskin
May 1996, English
Despite the long-term and continuing trend away from central business districts and toward suburban development, a number of factors are motivating recent attention to rail transit. These factors include: concerns about the negative impact of auto-oriented sprawl desires to reduce air pollution and energy consumption interest in rebuilding urban communities need to provide access and […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
May 1996, English
Despite the long-term and continuing trend away from central business districts and toward suburban development, a number of factors are motivating recent attention to rail transit. These factors include: concerns about the negative impact of auto-oriented sprawl desires to reduce air pollution and energy consumption interest in rebuilding urban communities need to provide access and […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
Brown Named President
May 1996, English
We are delighted to welcome Dr. H. James Brown as president of the Lincoln Institute, announces Kathryn J. Lincoln, chair of the Institute’s Board of Directors and of the Search Committee. “Jim is an accomplished and innovative academician who has served on the faculty of Harvard University for the past 26 years. He has also […]
City and Regional Planning, Urbanization
May 1996, English
We are delighted to welcome Dr. H. James Brown as president of the Lincoln Institute, announces Kathryn J. Lincoln, chair of the Institute’s Board of Directors and of the Search Committee. “Jim is an accomplished and innovative academician who has served on the faculty of Harvard University for the past 26 years. He has also […]
City and Regional Planning, Urbanization
Kathryn J. Lincoln Succeeds David Lincoln as Institute Board Chair
May 1996, English
David Lincoln is stepping down as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy after 22 years of service. Mr. Lincoln became the chair at the inception of the Lincoln Institute in 1974 and has played a major role in its development. He remains on the Institute Board and continues […]
May 1996, English
David Lincoln is stepping down as chairman of the Board of Directors of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy after 22 years of service. Mr. Lincoln became the chair at the inception of the Lincoln Institute in 1974 and has played a major role in its development. He remains on the Institute Board and continues […]
Sustainable Development in the Mekong River Basin
Trang D. Tu
May 1996, English
The mighty Mekong, tenth largest river in the world, faces conflicting pressures for developing its floodplains and harnessing its powerful flow, which spans 4200 kilometers from the Himalayas through China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea. Turbulence characterizes the river’s upper portions, but the lower Mekong is more placid, and annual […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment
May 1996, English
The mighty Mekong, tenth largest river in the world, faces conflicting pressures for developing its floodplains and harnessing its powerful flow, which spans 4200 kilometers from the Himalayas through China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea. Turbulence characterizes the river’s upper portions, but the lower Mekong is more placid, and annual […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment
Have American Planners Lost Their Values?
Stephen Ashworth
May 1996, English
If cynics know the price of everything but the value of nothing, then they may have something in common with contemporary American planners. Constrained by the courts, the planning fraternity sometimes appears to have spent the last decade rationalizing nexuses and quantifying costs without really addressing the social and environmental values that should underpin the […]
City and Regional Planning, Land and Property Rights, Land Use and Zoning, Valuation
May 1996, English
If cynics know the price of everything but the value of nothing, then they may have something in common with contemporary American planners. Constrained by the courts, the planning fraternity sometimes appears to have spent the last decade rationalizing nexuses and quantifying costs without really addressing the social and environmental values that should underpin the […]
City and Regional Planning, Land and Property Rights, Land Use and Zoning, Valuation
Land Lines, May 1996
Edited by Ann LeRoyer
May 1996, English
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
May 1996, English
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
In Search of New Life for Smaller Cities
Chris Kelley
March 1996, English
A proud outpost of America’s Industrial Revolution, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, survived the Great Flood of 1889, when a 40-mph wave swept the city into the Conemaugh River. Johnstown rebuilt itself into a dynamic city teeming with factories and steel mills. Yet what the flood couldn’t kill, a changing economy nearly has. In the space of a […]
Economic Development, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
March 1996, English
A proud outpost of America’s Industrial Revolution, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, survived the Great Flood of 1889, when a 40-mph wave swept the city into the Conemaugh River. Johnstown rebuilt itself into a dynamic city teeming with factories and steel mills. Yet what the flood couldn’t kill, a changing economy nearly has. In the space of a […]
Economic Development, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
Imagining Cityscapes
The Politics of Urban Development
Ann O'M. Bowman and Michael A. Pagano
March 1996, English
Imagine two communities in the Rocky Mountain region in the late 1860s. One is located along the transcontinental railroad, the other is 100 miles to the south. Which community would come to dominate the region by the turn of the century? Counterintuitively, the latter community did. There, aggressive entrepreneurs and community leaders orchestrated the completion […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Urbanization
March 1996, English
Imagine two communities in the Rocky Mountain region in the late 1860s. One is located along the transcontinental railroad, the other is 100 miles to the south. Which community would come to dominate the region by the turn of the century? Counterintuitively, the latter community did. There, aggressive entrepreneurs and community leaders orchestrated the completion […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Urbanization
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