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Global Universities and Urban Development
Comunicados de prensaMayo 23, 2008 -
Visioning and Visualization: People, Pixels, and Plans
Comunicados de prensaAbril 23, 2008 -
How Differences in Property Taxes within Cities Affect Urban Sprawl
Documentos de trabajoSeptiembre 2008Yan Song and Yves ZenouThis 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...
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The City-CLT Partnership
Municipal Support for Community Land TrustsEnfoques en políticas de sueloJunio 2008John Emmeus Davis and Rick JacobusBased 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...
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Global Universities and Urban Development
Case Studies and AnalysisLibrosMarzo 2008Edited by Wim Wiewel and David C. PerryThis 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:...
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Opportunities and Risks of Fiscal Decentralization
A Developing Country PerspectivePonenciasMayo 2008Roy BahlDespite 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...
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Local Revenues Under Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries
Linking Policy Reform, Governance, and CapacityPonenciasMayo 2008Paul SmokePaul 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...
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Local Service Provision in Selected OECD Countries
Do Decentralized Operations Work Better?PonenciasMayo 2008Ehtisham Ahmad, Giorgio Brosio, and Vito TanziThe authors survey the related literature of decentralization experiences in selected OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation...
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Political Structure and Exclusionary Zoning
Are Small Suburbs the Big Problem?PonenciasMayo 2008In 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...
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A Cross-Country Comparison of Decentralization and Environmental Protection
PonenciasMayo 2008Hilary SigmanHilary 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...
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