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European Property Taxation
Changing Times
Marzo 2001, inglés
The study of property taxation in Europe offers special challenges because each country has a different definition of land and property, and a different approach to local property taxation. The term property often includes both land and buildings, but may also include plants and machinery as well as certain possessions, such as automobiles. In Denmark, […]
Marzo 2001, inglés
The study of property taxation in Europe offers special challenges because each country has a different definition of land and property, and a different approach to local property taxation. The term property often includes both land and buildings, but may also include plants and machinery as well as certain possessions, such as automobiles. In Denmark, […]
Urban Sprawl and Land Regulation in Latin America
Marzo 2001, inglés
Urban sprawl has generated many studies, discussions and policies in the United States, but in Latin America the expansion of large cities has received relatively little attention, even though very large and rapidly growing cities are a widely recognized characteristic of the region. Several reasons may explain this disparity: the belated urbanization process in most […]
Marzo 2001, inglés
Urban sprawl has generated many studies, discussions and policies in the United States, but in Latin America the expansion of large cities has received relatively little attention, even though very large and rapidly growing cities are a widely recognized characteristic of the region. Several reasons may explain this disparity: the belated urbanization process in most […]
Land Lines, March 2001
Marzo 2001, inglés
Marzo 2001, inglés
Tierra vacante en ciudades latinoamericanas
Marzo 2001, español
Marzo 2001, español
Febrero 2001, inglés
Farming Inside Cities
Enero 2001, inglés
When people think of growing food in the United States, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of vegetable and fruit tree farms in California’s Central Valley, golden fields of wheat in the Plains states, and cows grazing on verdant rural landscapes in the Midwest and New England. Rarely is the image one […]
Enero 2001, inglés
When people think of growing food in the United States, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of vegetable and fruit tree farms in California’s Central Valley, golden fields of wheat in the Plains states, and cows grazing on verdant rural landscapes in the Midwest and New England. Rarely is the image one […]
Mercados de suelos residenciales disfuncionales
Las colonias de Texas
Enero 2001, español
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Un mecanismo creciente de producción de suelo y vivienda en los Estados Unidos lo constituyen las subdivisiones comunitarias automanejadas de bajos recursos, denominadas “colonias” en Texas. En un […]
Enero 2001, español
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Un mecanismo creciente de producción de suelo y vivienda en los Estados Unidos lo constituyen las subdivisiones comunitarias automanejadas de bajos recursos, denominadas “colonias” en Texas. En un […]
Dysfunctional Residential Land Markets
Colonias in Texas
Enero 2001, inglés
Low-income, self-managed homestead subdivisions, called colonias in Texas, are a rapidly expanding form of land and housing production in the United States. In a recently completed Lincoln Institute-supported study, I have analyzed the dysfunctional aspects of these land markets as measured by a high level of absentee lot ownership, modest lot and property transactions and […]
Enero 2001, inglés
Low-income, self-managed homestead subdivisions, called colonias in Texas, are a rapidly expanding form of land and housing production in the United States. In a recently completed Lincoln Institute-supported study, I have analyzed the dysfunctional aspects of these land markets as measured by a high level of absentee lot ownership, modest lot and property transactions and […]
