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1. The Effectiveness of Community Land Trusts

   An Affordable Homeownership Comparison
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2007
   Mickey Lauria and Erin Comstock

   The Community Land Trust (“CLT”) concept shows promise as an affordable housing strategy that allocates resources wisely and creates sustainable affordability. Existing research has demonstrated that...

2. Not Your Ordinary Joe

   The St. Joe Company and Florida’s Great Northwest
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2007
   Tim Chapin

   This paper documents the impact of the St. Joe Company’s growing real estate development portfolio on the Florida panhandle. It details the real estate market impacts of St. Joe (which have proven to...

3. Environmental Planning for Sustainable Food Supply

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2007
   Robert E. Evenson

   This paper first describes two major scientific revelations affecting food supply. The first is the Green Revolution, the second, the Gene Revolution. The Green Revolution was based on “...

4. Landowners on the Metropolitan Fringe

   Results from a Survey of Owners in Four U.S. Metropolitan Areas
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2007
   Jennifer Hrabchak Molinsky

   The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy conducted a study of metropolitan fringe landowners between 2002 and 2003, surveying by telephone over 2,000 owners of open, undeveloped fringe land in four U.S....

5. Taking Land Around the World

   International Trends in the Use of Eminent Domain
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2007
   Antonio Azuela

   Compulsory purchase, expropriation, eminent domain, or simply “taking”, are different names for one and the same legal institution: That which allows states to acquire property against...

6. Do Bylaws Matter?

   Evaluating Conservation Subdivision Design
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2007
   Elisabeth M. Hamin

   This research investigates what public and private purposes are being achieved in projects permitted as conservation or open space subdivisions. An expert panel evaluated nine conservation...

7. Urban Planning for Climate Change

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2007
   Edward J. Blakely

   Scientific opinion is now unanimous that global temperatures are likely to continue to rise with concomitant extreme weather patterns and events. There is a protean body of scientific literature...

8. Community Land Trusts and Low-Income Multifamily Rental Housing

   The Case of Cooper Square, New York City
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2007
   Tom Angotti with the assistance of Cecilia Jagu

   Community land trusts have often promoted owner-occupied single-family housing in rural areas and small towns, but many CLTs have sizeable numbers of multifamily rental and cooperative units. As CLTs...

9. The Sprawl of Economics

   A Response to Jan Brueckner
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2007
   Gerrit-Jan Knaap

   Under a variety of labels, smart growth has risen rapidly in popularity in the United States. The reasons for this rapid ascendance are multiple—increasing traffic congestion, rising property...