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1. School Finance, Spatial Segregation and the Nature of Communities

   Lessons for Developing Countries?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2001
   Thomas Nechyba

   This paper was written for and presented at a Lincoln Institute course titled, “International Seminar on Segregation in the City,” held July 26-28, 2001. While the issue of school finance...

2. The Legal Requirements Regarding Valuation of Land and Improvements for Property Tax Purposes

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2001
   David Brunori and Jennifer Carr

   This paper investigates two main questions regarding the state-level requirements governing the valuation of land and improvements for property tax purposes. First, does state law directly or...

3. Dysfunctional Residential Land Markets

   Colonias in Texas
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2001
   Peter M. Ward

   Low-income, self-managed homestead subdivisions, called colonias in Texas, are a rapidly expanding form of land and housing production in the United States. In a recently completed Lincoln Institute-...

4. Land Policy, Land Markets and Urban Spatial Segregation

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 2001
   Allegra Calder and Rosalind Greenstein

   Is urban spatial segregation a consequence of the normal functioning of urban land markets, reflecting cumulative individual choices? Or, is it a result of the malfunctioning of urban land markets...

5. Participatory Budgeting and Power Politics in Porto Alegre

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2001
   William W. Goldsmith and Carlos B. Vainer

   Responding to decades of poverty, poor housing, inadequate health care, rampant crime, deficient schools, poorly planned infrastructure, and inequitable access to services, citizens in about half of...

6. Obstacles to Legalization of Squatter Settlements in Venezuela

   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 2001
   Teolinda Bolívar Barreto

   Few low-income urban settlements in Venezuela are located on land owned by their occupants. As a result, the occupants cannot register the structures they have built and are entitled to only a...

7. Market Value-Based Taxation of Real Property

   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 2001
   Jane H. Malme

   Over the past decade of transition from communist to market economies, property taxation has taken on economic, political and legal importance as the countries in Central and Eastern Europe have...

8. Easements, Covenants and Servitudes

   Traditional Limitations and Future Trends
   Revista Land Lines
   Septiembre 2001
   Joan Youngman

   Editor's note: This article summarizes a recent Lincoln lecture by Dean Gerald Korngold of the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. He outlined the current status of the law on...

9. Presupuesto participativo y políticas de poderes en Porto Alegre

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2001
   William W. Goldsmith and Carlos B. Vainer

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 6 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En octubre del año 2000...

10. Universities as Developers

    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2001
    Allegra Calder and Rosalind Greenstein

    Universities are involved in the development of their immediate neighborhoods for a variety of reasons. For some, it is a matter of self-preservation and marketing, as neighborhood deterioration and...