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1. Making Room for a Planet of Cities

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Enero 2011
   Shlomo Angel, with Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, and Alejandro M. Blei

   This report—the precursor to Planet of Cities—provides policy makers and planners with a conceptual framework for understanding urban expansion and provides research-based suggestions for...

2. Involuntary Resettlement in Infrastructure Projects

   A Development Perspective
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Robert Picciotto

   A perennial issue with megaprojects and mega-events is the involuntary resettlement and forced displacement that are often associated with infrastructure development. Mega-events involve large...

3. Strengthening Urban Industry

   The Importance of Infrastructure and Location
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Nancey Green Leigh

   Within urban policy development and planning practice, a little acknowledged conflict exists: efforts to increase population density and promote more effective use of grey infrastructure—built...

4. Transit Value Capture

   New Town Co-Development Models and Land Market Updates in Tokyo and Hong Kong
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Jin Murakami

   Transit value capture is another common project-based approach for capturing land value increases generated by public investment. Jin Murakami examines this technique, which is used by major railway...

5. Airport Improvement Fees, Benefit Spillovers, and Land Value Capture Mechanisms

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Anming Zhang

   Airports may use land value capture as a funding source for infrastructure improvements. Anming Zhang explores the questions of how positive externalities generated by airports should be internalized...

6. Experimenting with Land Value Capture on Western State Trust Land

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Susan Culp and Dan Hunting

   The use of land value capture to finance investments in state trust land is another potential extension of the concept. Traditionally, state trust land has been leased to private companies and...

7. A New Financial Instrument of Value Capture in São Paulo

   Certificates of Additional Construction
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   Paulo Sandroni

   In this paper, Paulo Sandroni discusses a new instrument called the Certificates of Additional Construction Potential bonds (known in Brazil by the name Certificados de Potencial Adicional de Constru...

8. How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben

   In this paper, Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben note that the revenue mix for local government changes frequently in response to economic shocks, policy shifts, and technological advances in tax...

9. China’s Land System

   Past, Present, and Future
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Dwight H. Perkins

   In this paper, Dwight H. Perkins discusses how the development of Chinese real estate markets has generated tensions between different segments of the population and between the government and...

10. Property Rights and Real Estate Privatization in Russia

    A Work in Progress
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2009
    Bertrand Renaud, Joseph K. Eckert, and R. Jerome Anderson

    Russia has attempted to develop property rights institutions to facilitate the development of private real estate markets since 1991. As of 2008 only one city (Veliky Novgorod) of 171 medium and...