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City Tech: Getting Smart About Surfaces
Revista Land LinesFebrero 2024By Rob Walker, February 27, 2024From green roofs to cool pavement, cities are finding new ways to reduce heat and build resilience
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Moving Beyond Conventional Economic Development Practice
An Asset-Based Framework for Sustainable CommunitiesDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2024Haegi Kwon, Lincoln Institute of Land PolicyMany factors contribute to growing inequalities in the United States. This report focuses on how economic development policies and practices may contribute to more equitable cities and regions. It...
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Mayor’s Desk: Seeing New Opportunity in Scranton
Revista Land LinesFebrero 2024By Anthony Flint, February 13, 2024On the challenges and opportunities of guiding a postindustrial city that has some surprising claims to fame
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How Scenario Planning Affects Regional and Local Plans and Planning Practices
An Empirical AnalysisDocumentos de trabajoJunio 2020Arnab Chakraborty and Stephen Averill ShermanThis project investigated how regional scenario efforts can shape regional and local plans. Through document analysis of scenario efforts and selected plans in six regions, plus key informant...
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How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government
PonenciasMayo 2010Tracy M. Gordon and Kim RuebenIn this paper, Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben note that the revenue mix for local government changes frequently in response to economic shocks, policy shifts, and technological advances in tax...
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The Contribution of Local Sales and Income Taxes to Fiscal Autonomy
PonenciasMayo 2010John L. MikesellIn this paper, John L. Mikesell analyzes the local sales and income taxes in several U.S. states. As of 2009 the local sales tax is levied in 36 states, constituting over 30 percent of total local...
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An Analysis of Alternative Revenue Sources for Local Governments
PonenciasMayo 2010David L. Sjoquist and Andrew V. StephensonIn this paper, David L. Sjoquist and Andrew V. Stephenson evaluate the property tax, local sales tax, and local income tax using a standard set of criteria, including efficiency, equity, tax base...
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Intergovernmental Transfers to Local Governments
PonenciasMayo 2010David E. WildasinOne often-anticipated solution for closing municipal fiscal gaps is to increase federal and state government transfers to cities. In this paper author, David E. Wildasin, examines this possibility....
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Trends in Local Government Revenues
The Old, the New, and the FuturePonenciasMayo 2010J. Edwin BentonThis paper by J. Edwin Benton examines the response of diverse local fiscal structures in the U.S to economic stress with the aim to determine whether small and large municipalities across regions...
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Local Government Finances
The Link Between Intergovernmental Transfers and Net WorthPonenciasMayo 2008Luiz de MelloIn this paper, Luiz de Mello, using panel-based aggregate local government data from 13 OECD countries, examines the causal relationship between intergovernmental transfers and subnational...
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