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1. Case Study: Negotiated Value

   Community Amenity Contributions and Value Capture in the City of Vancouver
   Otro
   Octubre 2019
   Neal LaMontagne

   The case study reviews the Community Amenity Contribution (CAC) policy in Vancouver, BC. CACs are either fixed-rate or negotiated charges levied on new development through rezoning.

2. Harnessing Technology to Accelerate Land Protection

   GIS at The Trust for Public Land
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2019
   Will Rogers

   By developing and using sophisticated mapping and spatial analysis tools, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has been able to dramatically increase its effectiveness in delivering its land-for-people...

3. Are Land Use and Development Changes Associated with Value Capture as a Result of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Investments?

   A Longitudinal Land Parcel Data Analysis of the First Phase of the BRT System in Bogota, Colombia
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2019
   C. Erik Vergel-Tovar and Patrick Welch

   There has been a rapid growth of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems in the world. Currently, more than 200 cities have this type of mass transportation system. Few studies have examined the association...

4. Land Matters Podcast

   Episode 5: How One Midwestern City Is Trying to Stay Affordable
   Revista Land Lines
   Septiembre 2019
   By Anthony Flint, September 30, 2019

   Minneapolis has passed some of the most progressive housing policies and zoning reforms in the country, and other cities—including those on the coasts struggling to overcome an affordability crisis—are taking notice.

5. A New Chapter

   Cities Are Tackling the Housing Crunch—by Building Above the Library
   Revista Land Lines
   Septiembre 2019
   By Kathleen McCormick, September 27, 2019

   Defying predictions that they would die in the digital age, public libraries are finding new life as multipurpose community hubs. Now some cities, including Chicago and Miami, have begun to integrate...

6. Land Conversion and Misallocation Across Cities in China

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2019
   Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu, and Junfu Zhang

   The Chinese government has been using quotas to control the amount of farmland that can be converted for urban uses in different cities every year. Using a sample of more than 1.5 million land-lease...

7. Is Informal Transit Land-Oriented? Investigating the Links Between Informal Transit and Land-Use Planning in Quito, Ecuador

   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2019
   Julie Gamble and Elisa Puga

   Like many Latin American cities, Quito has undergone rapid urban transformation due to transportation interventions aimed at improving equity and environmental outcomes. Yet, informal transport...

8. Reflection

   Traverse Before Transect
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2019
   By Anuradha Mathur

   Ian McHarg introduced me to the ecological transect. It situated me uniquely in the land to which I had recently arrived as a student from India, 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) away. I was not just...

9. Remembrance

   A Few Choruses Low Down, but Not So Blue for Ian
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2019
   By Laurie Olin

   The publication of Design with Nature forever changed the field of landscape architecture. The book, its ecological point of view, its rational method, and its author also had a significant and...

10. Projects: Five Themes

    From New York City to Jining, China, These Projects Exemplify the Principle of Designing with Nature
    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2019
    Edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming

    Design with Nature Now spotlights 25 projects around the world that exemplify and extend Ian McHarg’s design philosophy. This article offers a glimpse of five such projects: the Malpai...