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1. Message from the President

   Redeveloping Our Cities for the Future
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2014
   George W. McCarthy

   When I was a scholar at Cambridge University in the 1990s, my now-departed colleague and friend Wynne Godley would drop by on Sundays to take me to visit one of the ubiquitous medieval churches in...

2. Will a Greenbelt Help to Shrink Detroit’s Wasteland?

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2014
   Mark Skidmore

   The first installment in a two-part series, this article outlines the fiscal causes and repercussions of Detroit’s surplus of vacant, publicly held property, and considers the prospect of...

3. Faculty Profile

   David Vetter
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2014

   David Vetter (Ph.D., University of California) has worked for more than four decades on urban finance and economics issues in Latin America. He taught and conducted urban research in Brazil for 17...

4. Report from the President

   Carrying on the Mission of the Lincoln Institute
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2014
   George W. McCarthy

   It is an honor to follow Gregory K. Ingram as the fifth president of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (see page 28), and to join you for my inaugural issue of Land Lines. It will be a challenge...

5. Winning Strategies for Climate Resilience

   Helen Lochhead Considers Rebuild by Design
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2014

   In response to Hurricane Sandy, the Rebuild by Design competition challenged architects, engineers, and planners to promote climate resilience through innovative planning and design. In this...

6. Putting People First

   10 Steps Toward Pedestrian-Friendly Suburbs
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2014
   Lynn Richards

   Communities across the United States are rescaling their suburban landscapes from places built for cars to vibrant, walkable places built for people. The incoming president of the Congress for the...

7. Journalists Forum on Land and the Built Environment

   Urban Infrastructure
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2014
   Anthony Flint

   Forty journalists gathered in Cambridge last spring to talk about infrastructure: who it’s for, how to plan and pay for it, and why we need smarter investments for 21st-century urban...

8. Faculty Profile

   Adam H. Langley
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2014

   Adam H. Langley is a senior research analyst in the Department of Valuation and Taxation at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Previously, Langley worked for the New York State Assembly. He earned...

9. Report from the President

   Education, Land, and Location
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2014
   Gregory K. Ingram

   For the past eight years, each of our annual land policy conferences has addressed a different theme; last year’s explored the changing links between education, land, and location in light of the...

10. Land Values in Chicago, 1913–2010

    A City’s Spatial History Revealed
    Revista Land Lines
    Abril 2014
    Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Daniel P. McMillen

    The authors’ sampling of data from Olcott’s Land Values Blue Book of Chicago provides a clear picture of the spatial evolution of Chicago from 1913 to 2010, demonstrating the strong role...