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1. How States Provide Cities with General Revenue

   An Analysis of Unrestricted State Aid
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2020
   Amanda Kass, Michael Pagano, and Farhad Kaab Omeyr

   Municipal governments in the United States generate revenues from their own sources (their authority to charge for services and collect taxes); other governments (intergovernmental revenue); and, by...

2. Greenventory 2.0

   Sustainability Lessons from Small and Midsize Legacy Cities
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2020
   Joseph Schilling and Gabriella Velasco

   This working paper builds the policy case for why sustainability presents small-to-midsize legacy cities with a promising pathway for their regeneration. Its conceptual foundation rests at the...

3. Measuring the Fiscal Health of U.S. Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Howard Chernick and Andrew Reschovsky

   This paper uses a specially constructed data base on city finance that accounts for the revenues and spending of the constituent governments that provide public services in cities—municipal...

4. What Makes Mixed-Use Development Economically Desirable?

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2020
   Qing Shen and Feiyang Sun

   Mixed-use development has been widely advocated by urban planners as an important planning tool for sustainable urban development. However, despite the fact that mixed land use is commonly observed...

5. Methodology Used to Create the Fiscally Standardized Cities Database

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2020
   Adam H. Langley

   This paper details the methodology used to create the fiscally standardized cities (FiSCs) database. The data are available for 212 U.S. cities for the 1977–2017 period on the Lincoln Institute...

6. How Scenario Planning Affects Regional and Local Plans and Planning Practices

   An Empirical Analysis
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2020
   Arnab Chakraborty and Stephen Averill Sherman

   This project investigated how regional scenario efforts can shape regional and local plans. Through document analysis of scenario efforts and selected plans in six regions, plus key informant...

7. Take the Q Train

   Value Capture of Public Infrastructure Projects
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2020
   Arpit Gupta, Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, and Constantine Kontokosta

   Transit infrastructure is a critical asset for economic activity yet costly to build in dense urban environments. We measure the benefit of the Second Avenue Subway extension in New York City by...

8. Current Issues and Perspectives in Urban Water Demand Management

   A Report on the 5th Urban Water Demand Roundtable April 8–9, 2019, Tempe, Arizona
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2020
   Ray Quay, Zachary Sugg, and Faith Sternlieb

   The Urban Water Demand Roundtable (UWDR) is a convening of practitioners, consultants, and academics engaged in water demand research. The UWDR was initially organized in 2012 by a group of water...

9. Property Tax Delinquency in the United States

   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2020
   Jenna DeAngelo

   How does a municipality create a property tax enforcement system that is revenue maximizing (property tax collection is as close to 100 percent as possible) but also fair (homeowners are able to...

10. Household Mobility and Local Government Finance in U.S. Cities

    Documentos de trabajo
    Febrero 2020
    Wenjing Li, Matthew Cushing, and John E. Anderson

    In this paper, we examine how household mobility is affected by the choice of local government finance method (taxation versus debt finance) for U.S. cities. We develop a discrete time dynamic...