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1. Climate Change and U.S. Cities

   Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptations
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2015
   William Solecki

   William Solecki examines the challenge climate change creates for city planning complicated by the fact that barring serious intervention, some urban land may eventually be underwater. Climate change...

2. Community Characteristics of Homeschooling

   The Case of Virginia
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Luke Miller

   In this paper, Luke C. Miller addresses homeschooling, a form of school choice that has been increasing rapidly and in which students now outnumber those attending charter schools. Using school...

3. Chicago and Its Skyway

   Lessons from an Urban Megaproject
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2013
   Louise Nelson Dyble

   In this paper, Louise Nelson Dyble examines the history of political leadership throughout the Chicago Skyway’s development as a public project and assesses the lessons from its eventual...

4. Metropolitan Cities in the National Fiscal and Institutional Structure

   Ponencias
   Abril 2013
   Paul Smoke

   In this paper, Paul Smoke points out that an important yet neglected issue in the study of urban public finance in developing countries is how urban and metropolitan governments are situated in the...

5. Experimenting with Land Value Capture on Western State Trust Land

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2012
   Susan Culp and Dan Hunting

   The use of land value capture to finance investments in state trust land is another potential extension of the concept. Traditionally, state trust land has been leased to private companies and...

6. Water Rights and Markets in the U.S. Semiarid West

   Efficiency and Equity Issues
   Ponencias
   Noviembre 2011
   Gary D. Libecap

   In this paper, Gary D. Libecap explores water in the semiarid western United States-a region in which many of the intensifying demand and supply problems regarding fresh water are playing out-as a...

7. Preparing for Rising Water Along U.S. Coastlines

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2011
   Bruce Babbitt

   In this paper, Bruce Babbitt argues that the most extensive land use impacts in the United States caused by climate change will occur along coastlines. Rising sea levels are already encroaching on...

8. Integrating Adaptation and Mitigation in Local Climate Change Planning

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2011
   Elisabeth M. Hamin

   Another land use planning issue related to climate policy is the potential tradeoffs in land use between adaptation and mitigation. Whereas typical mitigation measures, such as compact city structure...

9. The Decline in Transit-Sustaining Densities in U.S. Cities, 1910–2000

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2011
   Shlomo Angel, Alejandro Blei, Jason Parent, and Daniel A. Civco

   In this paper, Shlomo Angel, Alejandro Blei, Jason Parent, and Daniel A. Civco track the changes in transit-sustaining density in 20 U.S. cities from 1910 to 2000. They find a continuous decline in...

10. Do U.S. Policy Makers Have Better Alternatives to Cap and Trade?

    Ponencias
    Mayo 2011
    Ian W. H. Parry and Roberton C. Williams III

    In this paper, Ian W. H. Parry and Roberton C. Williams III argue that traditional benefit-cost assessments of different environmental policies often assume that the economy is in a Pareto optimum....