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1. What Drives the Property Tax?

   A Holistic Examination of City and County Budgets in Minnesota
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2009
   Aaron Twait and Mark Haveman

   Property tax levy increases are a policy concern for state and local governments nationally. It is conceptually appealing to examine state-level aggregate data to discern trends and explanations for...

2. Property Taxes for Local Finance

   Research Results and Policy Perspectives (Reconsidering Property Taxes: Perhaps Not So Bad After All)
   Documentos de trabajo
   Enero 2009
   Ronald C. Fisher

   Although property taxes continue to be one of the fundamental fiscal foundations for local government in the U.S., they also remain exceptionally controversial (even among taxes). The political or...

3. Exploring Changes in Homeowner Property Taxes in Wisconsin, 2000 to 2005

   Documentos de trabajo
   Febrero 2009
   Rebecca Boldt, Bradley Caruth, and Andrew Reschovsky

   Despite policymakers’ interest in property tax relief, very little is known about changes over time in the property tax liabilities and burdens faced by homeowners. Drawing on the fact that...

4. Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change Mitigation

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Agosto 2009
   Patrick M. Condon, Duncan Cavens, and Nicole Miller

   Land use patterns and urban form can strongly impact an urban community’s contribution to global climate change through the production of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Key contributors to a...

5. Evaluating Smart Growth

   State and Local Policy Outcomes
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2009
   Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong

   As smart growth programs in some states approach their fourth decade, new climate change concerns have raised the stakes on their success in managing urban development. This is an opportune time to...

6. Town–Gown Collaboration in Land Use and Development

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Junio 2009
   Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz

   Once considered enclaves of intellectual pursuit, institutions of higher education now play a much broader role in their neighborhoods and cities. The character of communities near expanding...

7. Property Tax Circuit Breakers

   Fair and Cost-Effective Relief for Taxpayers
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2009
   John H. Bowman, Daphne A. Kenyon, Adam Langley and Bethany P. Paquin

   This report presents the rationale for providing property tax relief to those who have a high relative tax burden, compares the fairness of various criteria used by states for eligibility, and...

8. Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation

   A Heritage of Civic Engagement
   Libros
   Febrero 2009
   Edited by Charles H.W. Foster

   Many partners have been involved over the last decade in developing an archive of materials documenting the evolution of land conservation in the six New England states. Coordinated by Charles H. W....

9. Smart Urban Growth for China

   Libros
   Enero 2009
   Edited by Yan Song and Chengri Ding

   “Overall, the collection is one of the very best on Chinese urban and regional planning that I have ever encountered. In the struggle to find good case study books for planning discourse, I...

10. Working Across Boundaries

    People, Nature, and Regions
    Libros
    Agosto 2009
    Matthew J. McKinney and Shawn Johnson

    “The principles, strategies, and tools describes in this book are a gold mine of information about how to manage regional collaborations and reach consensus around some of the most difficult...