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1. Fighting Gun Violence in Chicago with Trees, Rakes and Cleanup Crews

   Chicago Sun-Times
   September 20, 2019
   Lincoln Institute in the News

2. Big Plan on Campus

   At a Shuttered Detroit College, a Community Development Experiment Takes Root
   Land Lines Magazine
   September 2019
   By Anna Clark, September 13, 2019

   Detroit’s Marygrove College is closing its doors, but a new school serving preschoolers through graduate students is taking shape on its campus. Thanks to an innovative public–private...

3. Will a New Tax Stop Connecticut's Brain Drain?

   U.S. News & World Report
   August 28, 2019
   Lincoln Institute in the News

4. Global Urbanization

   Learning From China's Explosive Urban Growth
   Land Lines Magazine
   August 2019
   By Katharine Wroth, August 19, 2019

   Over the past four decades, more than 500 million people have moved from rural China to the nation’s cities, leading to rapid and often uncoordinated urbanization. A recent conference in...

5. Economic Development

   Vermont Attempts a Kinder, Gentler TIF—But Will it Work?
   Land Lines Magazine
   August 2019
   By Will Jason, August 20, 2019

   Vermont has enacted some of the nation’s tightest restrictions on tax increment financing, a common economic development tool with a less-than-stellar track record. Can these guardrails make TIF work?

6. 2019 Lincoln Institute Scholars Program

   Fellowship
   Fellowship Opportunities
   July 2019

   The Department of Valuation and Taxation hosts a program for junior scholars in which recent PhDs specializing in public finance or urban economics have an opportunity to work with senior economists.

7. 2019 International Conference on China Urban Development

   Conferences
   June 27, 2019
   Organizers and Co-Organizers: Peking University—Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy; College of Urban & Environmental Sciences, Peking University;Department of Urban Planning and Design, The University of Hong Kong and The Regional Science Association of China

   This conference will bring together researchers from different parts of the world to share empirical and policy research findings on urbanization and urbanism.

8. Lincoln Yards Opponents Ask Judge to Stop City from Spending Any Money on the Megaproject

   Chicago Tribune
   June 20, 2019
   Lincoln Institute in the News

9. Legacy Cities

   Three Rust Belt Cities Share Strategies for Equitable Revitalization
   Land Lines Magazine
   May 2019
   By Emma Zehner, May 28, 2019

   Leaders from Rochester, New York; Lansing, Michigan; and Akron, Ohio, are collaborating and comparing notes on how to equitably revitalize midsize legacy cities.

10. This Lawsuit is Putting a Racial Equity Lens on Economic Development Incentives

    Next City
    May 23, 2019
    Lincoln Institute in the News