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1. Is Infrastructure Finance Such a Big Headache?

   Revista Land Lines
   Junio 2022
   By José Gómez-Ibáñez, Zhi Liu, June 29, 2022

   Building and maintaining infrastructure is notoriously expensive, and governments often struggle to cover those costs. But emerging, innovative approaches to financing can help, explain the editors of the Lincoln Institute book "Infrastructure Economics a

2. Land Lines, October 2021

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2021
   Edited by Katharine Wroth

   This issue explores the connections between climate change and infrastructure, the role of sustainability in the revitalization of smaller legacy cities, and more.

3. Valuing Density

   An Evaluation of the Extent to which American, Australian, and Canadian Cities Account for the Climate Benefits of Density through Environmental Review
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2022
   Katrina Wyman, Danielle Spiegel-Feld, Adalene Minelli, and Sara Savarani

   This study looks at the extent to which major cities in the United States, Australia, and Canada assess the climate impacts of densification through the environmental review process. Research...

4. Envisioning Climate Resilience

   Experts from the Lincoln Institute Network Weigh in on Promising Land and Water Policy Solutions
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2021
   January 12, 2021

   The Lincoln Institute asked experts from across our professional network to answer this question: If you could implement one land-based policy in 2021 that would have a meaningful impact on climate...

5. Design with Nature Now

   Libros
   Octubre 2019
   Edited by Frederick Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, and Billy Fleming

   “I highly encourage students, faculty, and practitioners to read this book and distill for themselves the overarching lessons. Design With Nature Now is timely because it reintroduces us to an...

6. The State of the Streets

   New Findings from the Atlas of Urban Expansion – 2016 Edition
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Patrick Lamson-Hall, Shlomo Angel, and Yang Liu

   Relatively little is known about the spatial organization of streets and roads in the world’s cities, the differences that exist across cities, or the differences that have emerged within...

7. Urban Expansion in a Global Sample of Cities, 1990 – 2014

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Alejandro M. Blei, Shlomo Angel, Daniel L. Civco, Nicolás Galarza, Achilles Kallergis, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Yang Liu, and Jason Parent

   Using a 200-city sample that was carefully selected to represent the universe of 4,231 cities in in 2010, we generated measures of cities’ areas and populations at three points in time over a...

8. Housing Affordability in a Global Perspective

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2018
   Achilles Kallergis, Shlomo Angel, Yang Liu, Alejandro M. Blei, Nicolás Galarza, and Patrick Lamson-Hall

   This paper discusses housing affordability in cities the world over based on data from the Land and Housing Survey in a Global Sample of Cities. We report on the composition of the housing sector...

9. Land Taxes and Revenue Needs as Communities Grow and Decline

   Evidence from New Zealand
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2004
   Suzi Kerr, Andrew Aitken, and Arthur Grimes

   New Zealand is unusual in that nearly 60% of local services are funded from property taxes. These are a mixture of land taxes, capital value taxes, annual rental value taxes and uniform general...

10. Property Taxation in New Zealand

    Documentos de trabajo
    Diciembre 2002
    William J. McCluskey, with Arthur Grimes and Jason Timmins

    Since European colonisation of New Zealand in 1840, property taxes have formed the foundation of local authorities’ revenues. Currently, over half of local authority revenues are sourced from...