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1. New Lincoln Institute Policy Focus Report

   Detroit and the Property Tax
   Revista Land Lines
   Febrero 2016

   Detroit and the Property Tax: Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue By Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore Having emerged last year from the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, Detroit...

2. New Lincoln Institute Policy Focus Report

   Use-Value Assessment of Rural Land
   Revista Land Lines
   Febrero 2016

   Use-Value Assessment of Rural Land: Time for Reform? By John E. Anderson and Richard W. England The use of preferential tax treatment to protect rural land from development in the United States has...

3. New Lincoln Institute Book

   Land and the City
   Revista Land Lines
   Febrero 2016

   Land and the City Edited by George W. McCarthy, Gregory K. Ingram, and Samuel A. Moody Amid unprecedented challenges facing the world’s cities, the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy has published an...

4. New Lincoln Institute Policy Focus Report

   Buy-In for Buyouts
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2016

   Buy-In for Buyouts: The Case for Managed Retreat from Flood Zones By Robert Freudenberg, Ellis Calvin, Laura Tolkoff, and Dare Brawley In the face of rising sea levels, more frequent and severe...

5. New Lincoln Institute Book

   Nature and Cities
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2016

   Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning Edited by Frederick R. Steiner, George F. Thompson, and Armando Carbonell “The beautiful photographs and lush design of...

6. WPA 2.0

   Beauty, Economics, Politics, and the Creation of New Public Infrastructure
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2016
   By Susannah Drake

   An unprecedented combination of environmental problems, political evolution, and new design and technology presents an unparalleled opportunity to augment America’s failing infrastructure to...

7. Boundary Issues

   The 2016 Atlas of Urban Expansion Indicates Global De-Densification
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2016
   By John Wihbey

   Cities around the world are consuming land at a rate that exceeds population growth, according to this analysis of 200 global urban centers. Drawn from satellite images, population figures, and other...

8. Precision Conservation

   Pinpointing Pollution in the Chesapeake Bay with One-Meter-Resolution GIS
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2016
   By Kathleen McCormick

   The Chesapeake Conservancy’s land cover data are identifying sources of pollution in the bay with 90 percent greater accuracy and 900 times more information than the industry standard. The...

9. City Tech

   Open Reblock Land Readjustment App
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2016
   By Rob Walker

   Land readjustment is a vital but difficult and time-consuming process: formulating a sort of retroactive version of planning in neighborhoods that developed informally, with unsanctioned dwellings...

10. Message from the President

    The Road to El Dorado
    Revista Land Lines
    Octubre 2016
    By George W. McCarthy

    This month, like conquistadors of centuries past, tens of thousands of us will ascend the Andes to Quito, Ecuador, in search of El Dorado. But, unlike our brutal and greedy predecessors, we are not...