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1. Myths and Realities of Public Land Leasing

   Canberra and Hong Kong
   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 1999
   By Yu-Hung Hong

   Many scholars and analysts have suggested that public leasehold systems could allow governments to benefit from a share of future increased land value. Some have even argued that other policy...

2. Redefining Property Rights in the Age of Liberalization and Privatization

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 1999
   Edesio Fernandes

   An apparent paradox exists in developing countries between a more progressive definition of property rights and current trends toward privatization. On one hand, most proposals and programs of urban...

3. Land Use Expansion in Bogota

   Can It Be Controlled?
   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 1999
   Carolina Barco de Botero and Ralph Gakenheimer

   The complex demographic, geographic and economic pressures on land use patterns make managing urban growth a difficult challenge throughout the world. This is especially evident in rapidly developing...

4. Vacant Land in Latin American Cities

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 1999
   Nora Clichevsky

   Vacant land and its integration into the urban land market are topics rarely investigated in Latin America. The existing literature tends to focus only on descriptive aspects (i.e., number and size...

5. Mobilizing Land Value Increments to Provide Serviced Land for the Poor

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 1999
   Martim O. Smolka and Alfonso Iracheta Cenecorta

   The lack of affordable serviced land for the urban poor is one of the most important issues on the Latin American land policy agenda.1 This shortage of serviced land and the subsequent illegal...