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Brownfields in High and Moderate Flood Risk Areas in Providence, RI

By Jenna DeAngelo

April 2019, English

  Though frequently seen as an urban liability, brownfields can be an asset. The cost to remediate these formerly developed properties is often high, but they present valuable opportunities for revitalization and redevelopment. According to the EPA, waterfront brownfields “can play an important role in bolstering local resilience to increased flooding, storm surge, or temperatures […]

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools, Water

April 2019, English

  Though frequently seen as an urban liability, brownfields can be an asset. The cost to remediate these formerly developed properties is often high, but they present valuable opportunities for revitalization and redevelopment. According to the EPA, waterfront brownfields “can play an important role in bolstering local resilience to increased flooding, storm surge, or temperatures […]

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools, Water

A car sits submerged under water as a results of heavy flooding. The car sits under an aging Providence & Worcester Railroad bridge in Worcester.

Great Adaptations

How Two Smaller Legacy Cities Are Adopting Green Infrastructure

By Cyrus Moulton

April 2019, English

Connected by the Blackstone River and by a history of hard times, Worcester, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, are demonstrating how green infrastructure can help forge a new urban future in the era of climate change.

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Infrastructure, Local Government

April 2019, English

Connected by the Blackstone River and by a history of hard times, Worcester, Massachusetts, and Providence, Rhode Island, are demonstrating how green infrastructure can help forge a new urban future in the era of climate change.

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Infrastructure, Local Government

Mecanismos y estrategias de política de suelo y vivienda para la inclusión social

Caso de estudio Bogotá D.C., período 2000–2015

María Cristina Rojas E., Rodrigo E. Carrascal E., and Yolanda B. Caballero P.

April 2019, Spanish

Working Paper

Housing, Land Use and Zoning, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance

April 2019, Spanish

Working Paper

Housing, Land Use and Zoning, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance

Nationwide Mass Appraisal Modeling in China

Feasibility Analysis for Scalability Given Ad Valorem Property Tax Reform

Peadar Davis, Michael McCord, Paul Bidanset, and Margie Cusack

April 2019, English

Working Paper

Economic Development, Housing, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance

April 2019, English

Working Paper

Economic Development, Housing, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance

Photograph of several people standing around a table on which there is a colorful plan showing streets and buildings. Some of the people lean toward the surface of the table to place colored stickers on the plan. A laptop computer on the table shows another version of the plan.

Scenario Planning

Embracing Uncertainty to Make Better Decisions

Robert Goodspeed

March 2019, English

Policy Brief

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools

March 2019, English

Policy Brief

City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Technology and Tools

Recessionary Property Taxes

Evidence from Maryland

Andrew T. Hayashi

March 2019, English

Working Paper

Property Tax

March 2019, English

Working Paper

Property Tax

Designing Land Value Capture Tools in the Context of Complex Tenurial and Deficient Land Use Regulatory Regimes in Accra, Ghana

Samuel Banleman Biitir

March 2019, English

Working Paper

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Infrastructure, Land Use and Zoning, Local Government, Property Tax, Urbanization, Value Capture

March 2019, English

Working Paper

City and Regional Planning, Housing, Infrastructure, Land Use and Zoning, Local Government, Property Tax, Urbanization, Value Capture

This image shows a street with a blue driverless shuttle in the middle. Blurred trees sit in the background of the image.

Driverless Ed

Urban Planners Shift Gears as Autonomous Vehicles Hit the Streets

By Kathleen McCormick

March 2019, English

  Last fall, Las Vegas completed a yearlong pilot of the nation’s first public self-driving shuttle. Over the course of the experiment, more than 32,000 people hopped aboard a blue electric minibus bearing the slogans, “The future is here” and “Look ma no driver.” Designed and built by French start-up Navya and operated by Keolis […]

City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure, Land Use and Zoning, Local Government, Technology and Tools

March 2019, English

  Last fall, Las Vegas completed a yearlong pilot of the nation’s first public self-driving shuttle. Over the course of the experiment, more than 32,000 people hopped aboard a blue electric minibus bearing the slogans, “The future is here” and “Look ma no driver.” Designed and built by French start-up Navya and operated by Keolis […]

City and Regional Planning, Infrastructure, Land Use and Zoning, Local Government, Technology and Tools