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1. Regularization of Urban Land in Peru

   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 1998
   Julio Calderon

   Access to urban land by the popular sectors in metropolitan Lima has a troubled history resulting from the combination of spontaneous, unregulated land occupation and short-sighted policies to...

2. New Colombian Law Implements Value Capture

   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 1998
   Fernando Rojas and Martim Smolka

   Rapid urban growth, concentrated land ownership, and land use regulations often contribute to a scarcity of land serviced by public infrastructure, which facilitates huge increases in land prices and...

3. Using the Property Tax for Value Capture

   A Case Study from Brazil
   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 1998
   Claudia M. De Cesare

   Public investment in urban areas often results in increased land value that benefits only a small group of private owners. In a pioneering initiative, the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, is using the...

4. International Forum on Regularization and Land Markets

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 1998
   Peter M. Ward

   Scholars and practitioners involved with the regularization of low-income settlements in Latin America shared their experiences in a forum sponsored by the Lincoln Institute last March and hosted by...

5. Exploring Cuba's Urban and Environmental Heritage

   Revista Land Lines
   Septiembre 1998
   Peter Pollock

   Cuba is a striking country. Its historic capital city of Havana boasts 400 years of architectural heritage. Many areas are in a state of sad decay but some represent very creative approaches to...

6. The Recovery of 'Socially Created' Land Values in Colombia

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 1998
   William A. Doebele

   On July 18, 1997, the Congress of the Republic of Colombia passed an innovative new Law of Land Development with ambitious goals for permitting municipalities to recover socially created land values...

7. Public Land Management

   The Brasilia Experience
   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 1998
   Pedro Abramo

   Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, was inaugurated in the early 1960s as a "new city" that was to usher in a new era for Latin American metropolises, demonstrating how the government's efficient use of...

8. The Landscape of Ideas on Property Rights

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 1998
   Antonio Azuela

   My experience in attending the "Who Owns America? II" conference in Madison, Wisconsin, last June was like contemplating a landscape of ideas about land and people. From my perspective, this...

9. Fiscal and Regulatory Instruments for Value Capture

   The Case of Santo Andre
   Revista Land Lines
   Septiembre 1998
   Jeroen Klink, Luis Carlos Afonso, and Irineu Bagnariolli Jr.

   In Santo Andre and all Brazilian cities, the value per square meter of land is fixed by law, thus hindering the capacity of the city administration to tax real estate property according to its market...

10. Comparative Policy Perspectives on Urban Land Market Reform

    Revista Land Lines
    Noviembre 1998
    Gareth A. Jones

    Numerous convergent trends motivated 40 academics and practitioners from 15 countries to meet at the Lincoln Institute in July 1998 to discuss recent land market reforms. First, the recognition that...