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1. Effects of Urban Containment on Housing Prices and Landowner Behavior

   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 2000
   Arthur C. Nelson

   Smart growth has moved from the domain of policy analysts into more general acceptance. It is championed by national leaders such as Vice President Al Gore, governors (Parris Glendening of Maryland...

2. Local Government and Property Tax Reform in South Africa

   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 2000
   Riël C.D. Franzsen

   Since first holding democratic elections at the national and provincial levels in 1994, South Africa has undertaken far-reaching constitutional changes. Arguably, the most fundamental transformation...

3. Rethinking Value Capture Policies for Latin America

   Revista Land Lines
   Mayo 2000
   Fernanda Furtado

   Scholars and public officials concerned with social justice consider redistribution of land values to be an especially important objective of urban policy in Latin American countries, where great...

4. Using Land Value to Promote Development in Cuba

   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 2000
   Ricardo Nuñez, H. James Brown, and Martim Smolka

   Researchers from the Lincoln Institute are working with the Group for the Integrated Development of the Capital (GDIC) in Havana to better understand how land and increments in land value can be...

5. Challenges in Implementing Colombia's Participación en Plusvalías

   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 2000
   Carolina Barco de Botero and Martim Smolka

   Value capture instruments are widely considered to be beneficial fiscal planning mechanisms, even though they are difficult to implement. Colombia is notable in Latin America for its unique and long-...

6. Italy in Transition

   New Approaches to Planning
   Revista Land Lines
   Marzo 2000
   Francesca Leder

   The urban landscape typical of many small and medium-sized Italian cities is filled with historical richness but also with more recent incoherent and contradictory development patterns. As a result,...

7. The Land Market Deregulation Debate in Chile

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2000
   Martim O. Smolka and Francisco Sabatini

   Few places in Latin America, or in the rest of the world, have dared to implement such radical urban land policy reforms as Chile has over the last 20 years. In 1979, the government began initiating...

8. In Memory of Stephen K. Mayo

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2000

   The Lincoln Institute sadly reports the death of Stephen K. Mayo on November 26, 1999. Steve was a senior fellow of the Institute from 1996 to 1998. His work focused on the interactions between land...

9. Property Tax Classification in Cook County, Illinois

   Revista Land Lines
   Enero 2000
   Scott Koeneman

   Conventional wisdom and basic economic principles would suggest that an area subject to higher commercial and industrial property taxes than its nearby neighbors will suffer reduced economic...

10. Urban Spatial Segregation

    Forces, Consequences, and Policy Responses
    Revista Land Lines
    Noviembre 2000
    By Rosalind Greenstein, Francisco Sabatini, and Martim Smolka

    Spatial segregation is a feature of metropolises from San Diego to Boston, from Santiago to Cape Town, from Belfast to Bangalore. In some places the segregation is associated primarily with racial...