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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. 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...

7. 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...

8. 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...

9. Political Structure and Exclusionary Zoning

   Are Small Suburbs the Big Problem?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   William A. Fischel

   In this paper, William A. Fischel argues that metropolitan areas with more fragmented and decentralized government structures are more likely to have a lower elasticity of housing supply than those...

10. A Cross-Country Comparison of Decentralization and Environmental Protection

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2008
    Hilary Sigman

    Hilary Sigman presents a cross-country analysis of the relationships between decentralization and environmental quality. She employs four measures in her study: (1) access to improved sanitation; (2...