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1. Planning for Growth in Western Cities

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2003
   Armando Carbonell and Lisa Cloutier

   As part of the American Planning Association (APA) 2003 national conference held in Denver in March, the Lincoln Institute assembled a group of planning directors from large and small western cities...

2. The Value Capture Debate in Latin America

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2003
   Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado

   Value capture is an increasingly popular concept that seeks to capture for public benefit all or part of the increments in land value resulting from community, rather than private, investments and...

3. Using Value Capture to Benefit the Poor

   The Usme Project in Colombia
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2003
   María Mercedes Maldonado Copello and Martim O. Smolka

   Public policies and actions regarding social housing in Colombia, as in other Latin American countries, have concentrated on regularization and upgrading programs, which in many cases are linked to...

4. The View from Colombia’s Private Sector

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2003
   Oscar Borrero Ochoa

   Between 1970 and 1989, 17 progressive urban reform projects were submitted to the Colombian Congress, but all failed due to opposition from the conservative party supported by the influential private...

5. Faculty Profile

   Dick Netzer
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2003

   Municipalities across the United States face social problems caused by high land prices and a shortage of affordable housing. Dick Netzer, professor emeritus of economics and public administration at...

6. From the President

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2003
   H. James Brown

   I am pleased to report that the Lincoln Institute has signed an agreement of understanding with the Ministry of Land and Resources in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) to work together on...

7. Linking Growth and Land Use to Water Supply

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2003
   Matthew McKinney

   Over the past several years, the Lincoln Institute has sponsored executive courses for state planning directors in the Northeast and in the West. In October 2002, more than 25 planning officials from...

8. Full Disclosure

   Unexpected Improvements in Property Tax Administration and Uniformity
   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2003
   Gary C. Cornia

   Proposition 13, adopted by a referendum in California in 1978, was the most notable in a series of relatively recent actions to limit the property tax in the United States, and many experts view it...

9. Urban Responses to the "Lost Decades"

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2003
   Priscilla Connolly, William W. Goldsmith, and Alan Mabin

   As delegates to the World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in January 2003, the authors examined alternatives to the neoliberal approach to urban development, to escape the negative...

10. Faculty Profiles

    Julie Campoli and Alex MacLean
    Revista Land Lines
    Abril 2003

    Julie Campoli, a landscape architect, land planner and principal of Terra Firma Urban Design in Burlington, Vermont, and Alex MacLean, a photographer, trained architect and principal of Landslides...