Publicaciones

Octubre 2017, inglés

China is one of a small number of countries around the world that does not levy property tax on privately owned residential properties. After the Communist Party established a socialist regime in 1949, China adopted a public land ownership system and thereby lacked a real estate market until the reform era. Since the reform, property […]

Octubre 2017, inglés

Drones are revolutionizing data collection and mapping, ushering in major shifts and new opportunities in the domains of land management, policy, and advocacy. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) came into wide use globally about a decade ago, as their cost fell rapidly in the consumer market. In the developing world and in rapidly urbanizing areas, drones […]

Octubre 2017, inglés

Paradoxically, China is emerging as an innovative global leader in green initiatives, just as it has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest source of carbon dioxide emissions (Global Carbon Atlas 2016). “After decades of rapid expansion brought smog and contaminated soil,” noted the official Xinhua News Agency, “China is steadily shifting from GDP […]

Octubre 2017, inglés

First released just six years ago, the Chinese social-media app WeChat is one of the most popular in the world, with a reported 938 million active monthly users. It caught on as a messaging service, and has kept adding features. One has become wildly popular in ways that have attracted widespread attention: payments. Visit any […]

Octubre 2017, inglés

Revitalizing America’s Legacy Cities: Strategies for Postindustrial Success from Gary to Lowell By Torey Hollingsworth and Alison Goebel From Gary, Indiana, to Lowell, Massachusetts, smaller postindustrial cities are taking strategic steps to regenerate—with the chance to follow their larger rebounding counterparts like Pittsburgh and Cleveland—by building on downtowns, capitalizing on a unique sense of place, and focusing […]

Octubre 2017, español

Este número celebramos el aniversario de 10 años del Centro de desarrollo urbano y políticas de suelo de la Universidad de Pekín y el Instituto Lincoln, con artículos sobre la valuación masiva y SIG, ciudades esponja, drones, y The Nature Conservancy.

Octubre 2017, inglés

In this practical guide, two well-known experts argue that municipal leaders can dramatically improve the quality of life in their communities by adjusting local land use regulations. Development regulations determine the form of our cities, suburbs, and towns, but current regulations have structural deficiencies and biases that must be corrected for communities to meet 21st century land use challenges. Barnett, one of the pioneers of the modern practice of city design, and Blaesser, a land use and real estate lawyer, lay out strategies to preserve the natural environment, create desirable civic spaces, conserve historic buildings, reduce housing inequality, ease the pressures of urban sprawl, and deal with floods, erosion, and wildfire.