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Urban Risk and Climate Change Adaptation in the Reconquista River Basin of Argentina
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2014Flavio Janches, Hayley Henderson, and Leslie MacColmanThis working paper explores climate change adaptation as it is occurring in the Reconquista River Basin (RRB) in Argentina. The authors examine urban risk and the extent to which adaptation is...
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Community Land Trusts and Limited Equity Cooperatives
A Marriage of Affordable Homeownership Models?Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2014Meagan M. EhlenzSince 2008, many have questioned the efficacy of conventional homeownership, particularly for low-income households. Advocates champion shared equity homeownership as an alternative, including...
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(Re)Defining Successful Anchor Strategies
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2014Beth Dever, Omar Blaik, George Smith, and George McCarthyUniversities, hospitals, and large non-profit organizations are often referred to as “anchor institutions” because of their permanence and their physical and social ties to surrounding...
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Defining Metropolitan and Megapolitan Areas
Documentos de trabajoDiciembre 2014Gregory K. IngramPlanners, geographers, and economists use many varied areas for spatial analysis. These include: individual parcels or lots, city blocks, neighborhoods, school districts, cities, counties,...
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Riesgo urbano y adaptación al cambio climático en la Cuenca del Río Reconquista en Argentina
Documentos de trabajoNoviembre 2014Flavio Janches, Hayley Henderson, and Leslie MacColmanEste documento de trabajo explora la adaptación al cambio climático en la Cuenca del Río Reconquista (CRR) en la Argentina. Los autores examinan, a lo largo de la cuenca, el...
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Tax Base Erosion and Inequity from Michigan’s Assessment Growth Limit
The Case of DetroitDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2014In this paper we examine the degree to which Michigan’s property value assessment growth cap has eroded the tax base and created substantial differences in effective tax rates among residential...
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Assessment Growth Limits and Mobility
Evidence from Home Sale Data in Detroit, MichiganDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2014Timothy R. Hodge, Gary Sands, and Mark SkidmoreIn 1994 a limit on the growth of property values for tax purposes was imposed in Michigan. One consequence of the taxable value growth cap was the emergence of a differential in effective tax rates...
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The Nature of Value and the Value of Nature
A Review of Appraisal Methodology Concerning Natural Resource and Environmental ValuesDocumentos de trabajoOctubre 2014Adam I. DavisThe rules governing appraisal of real estate in the United States are set by the Appraisal Foundation and these rules determine the economic value of environmental features on land as well as the...
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Desarrollo urbano orientado a los sistemas de transporte público masivo tipo BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) en Quito y Bogotá
Documentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2014Daniel A. Rodríguez, with support from Erik Vergel and William Fernando Camargo TrianaEste informe reseña un estudio que combina métodos cuantitativos y cualitativos para comprender el impacto que las inversiones en sistemas de transporte publico masivo en autobús...
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China’s Urbanisation from Below
Village Led Land and Property DevelopmentDocumentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2014Ya Ping Wang and Yanglin WangRecent academic and media attention on China’s urbanisation focuses on large-scale project based developments in cities. Urbanisation in China is however a very complex process which happens at...
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