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1. The City-CLT Partnership

   Municipal Support for Community Land Trusts
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2008
   John Emmeus Davis and Rick Jacobus

   Based on a review of three dozen municipal programs and interviews with local officials and community land trust (CLT) practitioners, this report describes how cities are investing in existing CLTs...

2. Transforming Community Development with Land Information Systems

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Marzo 2008
   Sarah Treuhaft and G. Thomas Kingsley

   A new era of data democracy has arrived, enabling tremendous improvements in land information systems and opening up a wealth of opportunities for the practice of community development and the...

3. Tierra vacante en las ciudades de América Latina

   Desafíos y oportunidades
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Diciembre 2004
   Adriana de Araujo Larangeira

   This Spanish-language publication, Tierra vacante en las ciudades de América Latina: Desafíos y oportunidades (Vacant Land in Latin American Cities: Challenges and Opportunities),...

4. Exploring Ad Hoc Regionalism

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Diciembre 2002
   Douglas R. Porter and Allan D. Wallis

   A growing number of urban challenges—from threats of environmental degradation and sprawl, to social and fiscal disparity, to economic transformation and globalization—call for action at...

5. Regionalism on Purpose

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Agosto 2001
   Kathryn A. Foster

   In the past decade, interest in and experience with U.S. metropolitan regionalism have mushroomed as public officials, civic leaders, and metropolitan residents seek to address complicated regional...

6. Open Space Conservation

   Investing In Your Community's Economic Health
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Febrero 1998
   John Tibbetts

   This report describes several techniques of delineating the economic value of open space, explaining their strengths and limitations. The report also analyzes the effectiveness, practicality, and...

7. Risks and Rewards of Brownfield Redevelopment

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Abril 1997
   James G. Wright

   Brownfields are abandoned or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination that may present direct...

8. The New Urbanism

   Hope or Hype for American Communities?
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Noviembre 1996
   William Fulton

   Since the early 1980s, a group of planners, architects, and developers have been rebelling against “conventional” suburban development as practiced in the United States since the end of...

9. On Borrowed Land

   Public Policies for Floodplains
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 1996
   Scott Faber

   Flooding is a natural hydrologic occurrence, but flood-related damage to property and the risks to human life are exacerbated by urban growth and other intensive development in floodplains. The...

10. Alternatives to Sprawl

    Enfoques en políticas de suelo
    Diciembre 1995
    Dwight Young

    Sprawl is not a recent phenomenon. There is general agreement that it began in the construction boom of the post-World War II years and really came into its own with the initiation of the Interstate...