Financing Through the Collection of Urban Development Charges

This course, offered in Spanish, seeks to demonstrate the relationships among urban planning practices, the behavior of land markets and the legal foundations of property and public management. The conceptual, legal and economic framework that acts as a base for finance policy and as well as social management of the surplus value of land will be discussed. The course reviews the development of a variety of alternative instruments designed to finance urban goods and services to recover the cost of public investment (tax on improvements and other special contributions), as well as to manage development rights and public land.