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1. The Basis of the Property Tax

   A Case Study of New Zealand and South Africa
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2004
   William J. McCluskey and Riël C.D. Franzsen

   This report investigates the development of land and property taxation within the jurisdictions of New Zealand and South Africa. The research has sought to address a number of issues surrounding the...

2. Implications of a Split-Rate Real Property Tax

   An Initial Look at Three Virginia Local Government Areas
   Documentos de trabajo
   Mayo 2004
   John H. Bowman and Michael E. Bell

   Since the time of Henry George, there has been interest in his “single tax” on land values only, and in the related notion of taxing improvements less heavily than land, if improvements are part of...

3. From the President

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2004
   H. James Brown

   We announced in the last issue of Land Lines that I will be stepping down next year as president of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Rather than use this column to talk about the many innovative...

4. Some Observations on Street Life in Chinese Cities

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2004
   Stephan Fairfield, Ofer Manor, David Perkes, and Harriet Tregoning

   The Lincoln Institute has been collaborating with the Loeb Fellowship Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design for several years. The program was established in 1970 through the...

5. Land Use and Design Innovations in Private Communities

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2004
   Eran Ben-Joseph

   The twenty-first century will witness record growth in the number and distribution of private residential communities. Collectively referred to as common interest communities (CICs) or common...

6. What Politicians Know About Land Taxation

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2004
   David Brunori

   Supporters of land taxation view it as an efficient and effective means of financing government, and the concept has wide appeal among public finance scholars. Many economists, including several...

7. Faculty Profile

   Francisco Sabatini
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2004

   Francisco Sabatini, a sociologist and urban planner, is a professor at the Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, where he lectures on urban studies and planning and conducts research on...

8. From the President

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2004
   H. James Brown

   As I have reported previously, the Lincoln Institute is actively engaged in an array of land and tax policy initiatives in China that will have a profound impact on the socioeconomic transformation...

9. State Trust Lands

   Balancing Public Value and Fiduciary Responsibility
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2004
   Andy Laurenzi

   In June 2003 the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Sonoran Institute established a Joint Venture project to assist diverse audiences in improving state trust land administration in the...

10. Working Across Boundaries

    A Framework for Regional Collaboration
    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2004
    Matthew McKinney, John Parr, and Ethan Seltzer

    The case for thinking and acting regionally has been made in this country for well over 100 years. After surveying the West in 1890, John Wesley Powell published an essay titled “Institutions for the...