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1. Asia’s Urban Century

   Emerging Trends
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Rakesh Mohan

   Urban development has been exhibiting very different patterns around the world. Rakesh Mohan presents his observations of the urbanization patterns in Asia during the twentieth century and projects...

2. The United Kingdom’s Experience in Revitalizing Inner Cities

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Peter Hall

   Peter Hall discusses chronologically the urban regeneration effects undertaken in the United Kingdom over the past 30 years. The British urban development patterns discussed by Hall are very...

3. U.S. Urban Revitalization in the Twenty-First Century

   Hopeful Signs
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Eugénie L. Birch

   Eugénie L. Birch discusses past attempts by municipalities to revitalize U.S. inner cities. The U.S. urban renewal strategies described by Birch are similar in many ways to the British urban...

4. Community Land Trusts and Housing Affordability

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Steven C. Bourassa

   The U.S. government housing programs for assisting low-income families are administered largely at the state and local levels, and they include the Section 8 (Housing Choice Voucher) program, Section...

5. Multiple-Home Ownership and the Income Elasticity of Housing Demand

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Eric Belsky, Zhu Xiao Di, and Dan McCue

   An interesting trend in the U.S. housing market is the growing number of households owning second homes. This topic is of interest because households that divide their consumption of housing services...

6. Brazil’s Urban Land and Housing Markets

   How Well Are They Working?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   David E. Dowall

   As does the United States, Brazil faces many housing policy challenges. David E. Dowell points out that Brazilian housing is expensive and lacks local services and secure land tenure—a phenomenon...

7. Land Lines, October 2007

   Revista Land Lines
   Octubre 2007
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue hones in on socioeconomic conditions in post-Apartheid South Africa; strategies to improve U.S. state and local finances amid economic downturns; and the effects of urban land use...

8. Land Lines, July 2007

   Revista Land Lines
   Julio 2007
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue explores the lodging of rural migrants in China’s urbanizing villages; the unforeseen consequences of U.S. property assessment caps; international trends in the use of eminent domain...

9. Land Lines, April 2007

   Revista Land Lines
   Abril 2007
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue looks at the ubiquity of slums and informal land markets in developing nations across Latin America, Asia, and Africa; the need for a well-functioning property tax system in the Anglophone...

10. Land Lines, January 2007

    Revista Land Lines
    Enero 2007
    Edited by Ann LeRoyer

    This issue explores the diversity of property rights, public-private partnerships, and other land policies across Latin America; the role of U.S. community land trusts in ensuring the preservation of...