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Tax Incentives for Open Space Preservation
Examining the Costs and Benefits of Preferential Assessment
October 2013, English
Twenty-three states offer an incentive to preserve open space by providing preferential property tax assessment of qualifying parcels (table 1, p. 15). These property tax reductions can be considered expenditures in that they reduce revenue available for other uses in the interest of protecting the many amenities and environmental benefits of undeveloped land. Programs vary […]
Environment, Land Markets, Local Government, Valuation
October 2013, English
Twenty-three states offer an incentive to preserve open space by providing preferential property tax assessment of qualifying parcels (table 1, p. 15). These property tax reductions can be considered expenditures in that they reduce revenue available for other uses in the interest of protecting the many amenities and environmental benefits of undeveloped land. Programs vary […]
Environment, Land Markets, Local Government, Valuation
Gestión de zonas costeras
El modelo de Barbados
Gregory R. Scruggs and Thomas E. Bassett
October 2013, Spanish
Por cada nota periodística sobre turismo que muestra el paraíso caribeño de Barbados, con sus aguas tranquilas besando las playas de fina arena, hay también una noticia inquietante sobre un huracán en ciernes. Las Antillas Menores, un archipiélago de islas pequeñas que forman una media luna en el este del Mar Caribe, han sido siempre […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Use and Zoning
October 2013, Spanish
Por cada nota periodística sobre turismo que muestra el paraíso caribeño de Barbados, con sus aguas tranquilas besando las playas de fina arena, hay también una noticia inquietante sobre un huracán en ciernes. Las Antillas Menores, un archipiélago de islas pequeñas que forman una media luna en el este del Mar Caribe, han sido siempre […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Use and Zoning
Coastal Zone Management
The Barbados Model
Gregory R. Scruggs and Thomas E. Bassett
October 2013, English
For every travel article featuring a Caribbean paradise with gentle waters lapping a sandy beach, there is an anxious news story about a brewing hurricane. The Lesser Antilles, an archipelago of small islands that form a crescent in the eastern Caribbean, have always been particularly vulnerable, thrust into the volatile waters of the Atlantic Ocean. […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Use and Zoning
October 2013, English
For every travel article featuring a Caribbean paradise with gentle waters lapping a sandy beach, there is an anxious news story about a brewing hurricane. The Lesser Antilles, an archipelago of small islands that form a crescent in the eastern Caribbean, have always been particularly vulnerable, thrust into the volatile waters of the Atlantic Ocean. […]
City and Regional Planning, Climate Change, Environment, Land Use and Zoning
Informe del presidente
Cómo detectar y prevenir las burbujas de precios inmobiliarios
Gregory K. Ingram
October 2013, Spanish
Los Estados Unidos están emergiendo de una gran recesión, cuya característica principal ha sido el colapso de los precios inmobiliarios nacionales, los cuales aumentaron en un 59 por ciento de 2000 a 2006 y luego descendieron un 41 por ciento para el año 2011 (siempre en dólares constantes). A nivel nacional, los verdaderos precios inmobiliarios […]
Economic Development, Housing, Land Markets, Public Finance
October 2013, Spanish
Los Estados Unidos están emergiendo de una gran recesión, cuya característica principal ha sido el colapso de los precios inmobiliarios nacionales, los cuales aumentaron en un 59 por ciento de 2000 a 2006 y luego descendieron un 41 por ciento para el año 2011 (siempre en dólares constantes). A nivel nacional, los verdaderos precios inmobiliarios […]
Economic Development, Housing, Land Markets, Public Finance
Report from the President
Detecting and Preventing House Price Bubbles
Gregory K. Ingram
October 2013, English
The United States is emerging from a great recession whose major hallmark has been the collapse of national housing prices, which grew by 59 percent from 2000 to 2006 and then fell 41 percent by 2011, all in constant dollars. Nationally, real house prices in 2011 were 6 percent below levels in 2000. The housing […]
Economic Development, Housing, Land Markets, Public Finance
October 2013, English
The United States is emerging from a great recession whose major hallmark has been the collapse of national housing prices, which grew by 59 percent from 2000 to 2006 and then fell 41 percent by 2011, all in constant dollars. Nationally, real house prices in 2011 were 6 percent below levels in 2000. The housing […]
Economic Development, Housing, Land Markets, Public Finance
Ciudad y universidad unidas por la conservación
Douglas L. Givens
July 2013, Spanish
No es casualidad que la Universidad de Kenyon, en Gambier, Ohio, aparezca en gran cantidad de listas de los más hermosos campus universitarios de los Estados Unidos. Cuando el obispo Philander Chase fundó esta universidad en la cumbre de una colina arbolada en el año 1824, su visión era lograr un entorno rural sereno que […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Conservation
July 2013, Spanish
No es casualidad que la Universidad de Kenyon, en Gambier, Ohio, aparezca en gran cantidad de listas de los más hermosos campus universitarios de los Estados Unidos. Cuando el obispo Philander Chase fundó esta universidad en la cumbre de una colina arbolada en el año 1824, su visión era lograr un entorno rural sereno que […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Conservation
Town-Gown Conservation at Kenyon College
Douglas L. Givens
July 2013, English
It is no accident that Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, appears on so many lists of America’s most beautiful campuses. Since Bishop Philander Chase founded the college on a wooded hilltop in 1824, he envisioned a serene rural environment that would promote serious thought and good conduct. For 189 years, the college and those who […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Conservation
July 2013, English
It is no accident that Kenyon College, in Gambier, Ohio, appears on so many lists of America’s most beautiful campuses. Since Bishop Philander Chase founded the college on a wooded hilltop in 1824, he envisioned a serene rural environment that would promote serious thought and good conduct. For 189 years, the college and those who […]
City and Regional Planning, Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Conservation
Puerto Madero
Análisis de un proyecto
Alfredo Garay, Laura Wainer, Hayley Henderson, and Demian Rotbart
July 2013, Spanish
Han transcurrido más de 20 años desde que un megaproyecto impulsado por el gobierno comenzó a transformar a Puerto Madero, el sector más antiguo del distrito portuario que se encuentra en la desembocadura del Río de la Plata en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Habiendo sido anteriormente un centro de decadencia que fomentaba el deterioro del centro […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
July 2013, Spanish
Han transcurrido más de 20 años desde que un megaproyecto impulsado por el gobierno comenzó a transformar a Puerto Madero, el sector más antiguo del distrito portuario que se encuentra en la desembocadura del Río de la Plata en Buenos Aires, Argentina. Habiendo sido anteriormente un centro de decadencia que fomentaba el deterioro del centro […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
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