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1. Global Universities and Urban Development

   Comunicados de prensa
   Mayo 23, 2008

2. Visioning and Visualization: People, Pixels, and Plans

   Comunicados de prensa
   Abril 23, 2008

3. How Differences in Property Taxes within Cities Affect Urban Sprawl

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2008
   Yan Song and Yves Zenou

   This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between the differentiated property tax within urban areas and urban sprawl in U.S. cities. We first develop a theoretical model in which the...

4. 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...

5. Global Universities and Urban Development

   Case Studies and Analysis
   Libros
   Marzo 2008
   Edited by Wim Wiewel and David C. Perry

   This book on the role of global universities in urban development, edited by Wim Wiewel and David C. Perry, complements their previous volume on U.S. institutions, The University as Urban Developer:...

6. Planning Support Systems for Cities and Regions

   Libros
   Octubre 2008
   Edited by Richard K. Brail

   This book invites the reader to join in a virtual dialogue with its authors—educators, theorists, model builders, and planners—about technology and the social context in which technology...

7. Visioning and Visualization

   People, Pixels, and Plans
   Libros
   Abril 2008
   Michael Kwartler and Gianni Longo

   Two remarkable phenomena have affected the practice of planning over the past two decades: the rise of public involvement as an integral component of urban decision making, and the technological...

8. Opportunities and Risks of Fiscal Decentralization

   A Developing Country Perspective
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Roy Bahl

   Despite the overwhelming support for decentralization programs, there is little agreement among scholars and policy makers, and scant empirical evidence, as to whether the devolution of power to...

9. Local Revenues Under Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries

   Linking Policy Reform, Governance, and Capacity
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Paul Smoke

   Paul Smoke examines local revenue generation under fiscal decentralization in developing countries. He finds that local capacity for generating own-source funds is rare due to a lack of attention to...

10. Local Service Provision in Selected OECD Countries

    Do Decentralized Operations Work Better?
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2008
    Ehtisham Ahmad, Giorgio Brosio, and Vito Tanzi

    The authors survey the related literature of decentralization experiences in selected OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation...