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1. Detroit and the Property Tax

   Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance Revenue
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 2015
   Gary Sands and Mark Skidmore

   This report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...

2. Arrested Developments

   Combating Zombie Subdivisions and Other Excess Entitlements
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Enero 2014
   Jim Holway, Don Elliott, and Anna Trentadue

   Drawing on case studies, survey results, and data analyses of abandoned residential development projects in the U.S. Intermountain West, this report shows local leaders how to identify and overcome...

3. Regenerating America’s Legacy Cities

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2013
   Alan Mallach and Lavea Brachman

   This report explores the challenges of regenerating America's legacy cities and suggests ways to overcome obstacles such as job and population loss. Community and economic developers will learn...

4. High-Speed Rail

   International Lessons for U.S. Policy Makers
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2011
   Petra Todorovich, Daniel Schned, and Robert Lane

   High-speed rail has been adopted throughout the world, and is now being planned and developed in the United States. Over the past 50 years, U.S. transportation spending has favored the development of...

5. Large Landscape Conservation

   A Strategic Framework for Policy and Action
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2010
   Matthew McKinney, Lynn Scarlett, and Daniel Kemmis

   The most important land and water conservation issues facing North America—including land use patterns, sustainable water management, biodiversity protection, and adaptation to climate change...

6. Evaluating Smart Growth

   State and Local Policy Outcomes
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2009
   Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   As smart growth programs in some states approach their fourth decade, new climate change concerns have raised the stakes on their success in managing urban development. This is an opportune time to...

7. The City-CLT Partnership

   Municipal Support for Community Land Trusts
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2008
   John Emmeus Davis and Rick Jacobus

   Based on a review of three dozen municipal programs and interviews with local officials and community land trust (CLT) practitioners, this report describes how cities are investing in existing CLTs...

8. Transforming Community Development with Land Information Systems

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Marzo 2008
   Sarah Treuhaft and G. Thomas Kingsley

   A new era of data democracy has arrived, enabling tremendous improvements in land information systems and opening up a wealth of opportunities for the practice of community development and the...

9. Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Diciembre 2002
   Douglas R. Porter and Allan D. Wallis

   A growing number of urban challenges—from threats of environmental degradation and sprawl, to social and fiscal disparity, to economic transformation and globalization—call for action at...

10. Regionalism on Purpose

    Enfoques en políticas de suelo
    Agosto 2001
    Kathryn A. Foster

    In the past decade, interest in and experience with U.S. metropolitan regionalism have mushroomed as public officials, civic leaders, and metropolitan residents seek to address complicated regional...