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1. Q & A with President Jim Brown

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 1996

   Q. You have been at the helm of the Lincoln Institute since May 1. What aspect of the program has captured most of your attention in the past few months? A. My first task has been to work with the...

2. The Ideologies of Urban Land Use Politics

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 1996
   Alan Altshuler

   Local governments exercise greater land use authority in the United States than in any other advanced democracy. Yet local governments have themselves evolved piecemeal in the typical U.S....

3. Ethics, Business, and Land

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 1996
   David C. Lincoln

   My father John C. Lincoln (1866-1959) had a strong code of ethics that played a prominent role in both his practice of business and his ideas about land. In 1895 he founded the Lincoln Electric...

4. Los mercados de suelo en América Latina

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 1996
   Martim Smolka

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 1 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. El Programa para América...

5. Latin American Land Markets

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 1996
   Martim Smolka

   The Lincoln Institute’s Latin America program pursues education and research projects with universities and local governments throughout Central and South America and the Caribbean. These activities...

6. Remembering William Vickrey

   Revista Land Lines
   Noviembre 1996
   Dick Netzer

   William Vickrey died on October 11, three days after the announcement of his being awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics, while on his way to the Lincoln Institute for the annual research conference...

7. Communications Technology and Settlement Patterns

   Revista Land Lines
   Septiembre 1996
   Benjamin Chinitz and Thomas Horan

   In four years, there will be a fresh count of Americans. The 2000 Census will reveal how many of us there are, who we are in terms of race, nativity, income, family size and occupation, what kind of...

8. Overcoming Obstacles to Smart Development

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 1996
   Edward H. Starkie and Bonnie Gee Yosick

   Driven by an awareness of population expansion and the difficulties that follow growth, Oregon's Departments of Transportation and of Land Conservation and Development created the "Smart Development...

9. Local Property Tax Reform

   Prospects and Politics
   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 1996
   Joan Youngman

   To what extent are problems of distressed urban areas attributable to the property tax, and how can changes in property taxation help remedy urban decline? Political leaders, policy analysts and...

10. Is Federal Tax Policy for Real Estate in the Public Interest?

    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 1996
    Michael Hudson

    The idea of reducing or abolishing capital gains taxes to encourage private investment and general economic growth often comes up in state and national political campaigns. Advocates of cutting these...