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1. The Property Tax-School Funding Dilemma

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Diciembre 2007
   Daphne A. Kenyon

   This report seeks to correct common misconceptions surrounding the practice of relying on the proprety tax to fund public schools. Through a comprehensive review of research and seven case studies,...

2. Reinventing Conservation Easements

   A Critical Examination and Ideas for Reform
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Septiembre 2005
   Jeff Pidot

   Conservation easements represent one of the most rapid trends in land conservation. Beyond tax credits, tax deductions, and other public subsidies that provide financial incentive for landowners to...

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. Mediating Land Use Disputes

   Pros and Cons
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Abril 2000
   Lawrence Susskind, Mieke van der Wansem, and Armand Ciccarelli

   Land use planning in America began with a concern for the efficient allocation of land, but has shifted to a concern for procedural fairness in allocating public resources, which requires increased...

7. State Property Rights Laws

   The Impacts of Those Laws on My Land
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Abril 1999
   Harvey M. Jacobs

   The conservative land use movement that emerged in the 1990s to promote the interests of private property owners has pursued a vigorous legislative agenda at all levels of government. All 50 state...

8. 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...

9. 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...

10. 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...