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1. Rural Urbanization and Religious Transformation

   A Case Study of Zhangdian Town
   Documentos de trabajo
   Marzo 2005
   Liu Zhijun

   The purpose of this paper is to engage the impact of rural urbanization on the transformation of rural religions based on description of the urbanization situation and religious transformation of a...

2. The Community Land Trust as a Highway Environmental Impact Mitigation Tool

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2005
   Steven C. Bourassa

   The proposed Newtown Pike Extension in Lexington, Kentucky, has the potential to cause significant displacement of low-income residents. Following Executive Order 12898, which was signed in 1994,...

3. From the President

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2005
   Gregory K. Ingram

   The Lincoln Institute has long been involved in international activities that deal with land policy and land taxation issues. In the 1970s those activities focused mainly on training and education....

4. Connections Between Economic Development and Land Taxation

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2005
   Jeffrey Chapman and Rex L. Facer II

   Recent court decisions have made economic development and tax policy front-page news. The recent U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London raised a public outcry when it allowed local...

5. Faculty Profile

   C. Lowell Harriss
   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2005

   C. Lowell Harriss is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, where he taught economics from 1938 until his retirement in 1981. He then served as executive director of the Academy of Political...

6. Desafíos de suelo urbano y vivienda en Brasil

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2005
   Heather Boyer

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. El Lincoln Institute ha...

7. From the President

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2005
   Gregory K. Ingram

   Education, training, research, and dissemination have been the instruments used most frequently by the Lincoln Institute to achieve its goals of expanding and making available its knowledge of land...

8. America's Megapolitan Areas

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2005
   Robert E. Lang and Dawn Dhavale

   Megapolitan areas are integrated networks of metro- and micropolitan areas. The name “megapolitan” plays off Jean Gottmann’s 1961 “megalopolis” label by using the same prefix. We find that the United...

9. Stabilizing Property Taxes in Volatile Real Estate Markets

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2005
   Joan Youngman and Jane Malme

   Property taxes based on market value have many features that recommend them as a source of local government revenue. They promote visibility and accountability in public spending by providing...

10. Property Tax Development in China

    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2005
    Chengri Ding

    The Lincoln Institute’s China Program was established several years ago, in part to develop training programs on property taxation policy and local government finance with officials from the State...