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1. Assessing the Distributive Impact of a Revenue-Neutral Shift from a Uniform Property Tax to a Two-Rate Property Tax with a Uniform Credit

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2004
   Richard W. England and Min Qiang Zhao

   A number of economists have argued that a property tax with a lower rate applied to improvement values than land values is superior to a property tax with a uniform tax rate that yields the same...

2. Lessons from Attempted Utopia

   Fairhope, Alabama, and Arden, Deleware
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2004
   Matthew M. Harris

   The towns of Fairhope, Alabama and Arden Delaware were founded in 1894 and 1900 respectively. Both were intentional communities founded to demonstrate the economic principles advocated by Henry...

3. Training Indiana’s Assessors

   A Blueprint and Foundation for Reform
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2004
   Frank Kelly and Jeff Wuensch

   This paper reports on the current educational and training system for Indiana’s assessors, reviews necessary job functions and prerequisites, and summarizes their current qualifications. In...

4. Evaluating the Feasibility and Burden Shifting Impacts of a State Land Value Tax on Commercial and Industrial Property

   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2004
   Mark Haveman

   In the most recent general session of the Minnesota state legislature, a bill was introduced to transition the commercial/industrial portion of the state general property tax into a tax on commercial...

5. Urban Sprawl

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2004
   Thomas J. Nechyba and Randall Walsh

   Modern usage of the term “sprawl” was coined in 1937 by Earle Draper—one of the first city planners in the southeastern United States (Black, 1996). By the end of World War II, the...

6. Intra-Metropolitan Area Fiscal Capacity Disparities and the Property Tax

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2004
   Michael E. Bell, Lindsay C. Clark, Joe Cordes, and Hal Wolman

   The purpose of this study is to assess the extent of variations in the revenue capacity of select local governments in the Washington, DC area using the Representative Revenue System developed by the...

7. Essay on the Political Economy of Two-Rate Property Taxation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2004
   Richard W. England

   This paper surveys the various economic arguments in favor of taxing land values more heavily than building values and then explores why two-rate property taxation has not yet been adopted in the...

8. Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens

   Libros
   Noviembre 2004
   Dan L. Perlman and Jeffrey C. Milder

   In recent years, the practice of ecologically based planning and development has emerged as a way to safeguard human communities from natural hazards and to protect natural systems from the impacts...

9. Land Lines, October 2004

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2004
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue looks at land use and design innovations in private U.S. communities; Harvard Design School Loeb Fellows’ observations of land use and streetscapes in Chinese cities; U.S....

10. Land Lines, July 2004

    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2004
    Edited by Ann LeRoyer

    This issue explores farmland preservation in China; the inadequacies and strengths of land regularization and upgrading programs in Latin America; balancing public values and fiduciary...