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1. Mayor’s Desk: Cultivating Climate Resilience in Sierra Leone

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2022
   By Anthony Flint, November 10, 2022

   Freetown, Sierra Leone, is one of seven cities around the world that have appointed chief heat officers as part of a global effort to invest in a climate-resilient future. Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr...

2. UN-Habitat and Lincoln Institute join forces to develop Global Municipal Database for Sustainable Urbanization

   Comunicados de prensa
   Marzo 24, 2016

   For Immediate Release Contact: Anthony Flint 617-503-2116 anthony.flint@lincolninst.edu Will Jason 617-503-2254 wjason@lincolninst.edu CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (March 24, 2016) -- Leaders from the United...

3. The Statute of the Metropolis and Planning Reform in Brazil

   Analyzing Land Use Planning Practices and Metropolitan Land Conflicts
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2021
   Abigail Friendly and Felipe Francisco De Souza

   In 2015, Brazil enacted the Statute of the Metropolis (Federal Law No. 13,089) to regulate the establishment of metropolitan areas and regional public policies throughout the country. This research...

4. Value Capture and the Role of Land in the Equality of Opportunities

   The Case of São Paulo, Brazil
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2021
   Ciro Biderman

   São Paulo has developed a unique instrument for capturing land value: charging for the right to build. This instrument has been evolving since mid-1970s and is now firmly established in the...

5. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

6. Financing Metropolitan Governments in Developing Countries

   Libros
   Abril 2013
   Edited by Roy W. Bahl, Johannes F. Linn, and Deborah L. Wetzel

   This work uses case studies of urban financing mechanisms in China, India, and Brazil to help decision makers in developing countries address the challenges of rapid metropolitan growth. The report...

7. Metropolitan Infrastructure and Capital Finance

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Gregory K. Ingram, Zhi Liu, and Karin L. Brandt

   This paper provides a baseline analysis and comparison of private participation in key infrastructure (energy, transportation, telecommunications, water and sanitation) for developing countries...

8. Message from the President

   Who Will Pay for Our Urban Future?
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2016
   By George W. McCarthy

   Humans have had a love-hate relationship with urbanization for hundreds of years. In the mid-18th century, at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, common fields and pastures were enclosed to force...

9. Fiscal health conversation turns to foreclosures, unspent grants and land use

   Entradas de blog
   Junio 2017

10. 2019 C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program

    Graduate Student Fellowship
    Oportunidades de becas de posgrado
    Enero 2019

    The C. Lowell Harriss Dissertation Fellowship Program assists Ph.D. students, primarily at U.S. universities, whose research complements the Lincoln Institute's interests in land and tax policy.