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Ballot Box Conservation: How citizens are mobilizing to protect natural resources
May 10, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
David Hartwell will tell the story of the campaign to pass the largest land conservation ballot initiatives in U.S. history, which amended the Minnesota state constitution in 2006.
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Land Conservation
David Hartwell will tell the story of the campaign to pass the largest land conservation ballot initiatives in U.S. history, which amended the Minnesota state constitution in 2006.
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Land Conservation
Building and Dwelling: A Conversation with Richard Sennett
May 9, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Sociologist Richard Sennett discusses his book Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, in which he traces the anguished relationship between how cities are built and how people actually live in them, from ancient Athens to 21st-century Shanghai
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Sociologist Richard Sennett discusses his book Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City, in which he traces the anguished relationship between how cities are built and how people actually live in them, from ancient Athens to 21st-century Shanghai
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2017 Urban Economics and Public Finance Conference
May 5, 2017 - May 6, 2017
8:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The economic growth and development of urban areas are closely linked to their revenue sufficiency and fiscal prospects. This research seminar offers a forum for new academic work on the interaction of these two fields.
Conference
Land Use and Zoning, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax, Public Finance, Valuation
The economic growth and development of urban areas are closely linked to their revenue sufficiency and fiscal prospects. This research seminar offers a forum for new academic work on the interaction of these two fields.
Conference
Land Use and Zoning, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax, Public Finance, Valuation
The Governance of Land Use Symposium
May 2, 2017
3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The Lincoln Institute is hosting a symposium and evening reception to launch the new policy report of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - The Governance of Land Use in OECD Countries: Policy Analysis and Recommendations.
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Land Use and Zoning
The Lincoln Institute is hosting a symposium and evening reception to launch the new policy report of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - The Governance of Land Use in OECD Countries: Policy Analysis and Recommendations.
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Land Use and Zoning
Housing Markets and the Fiscal Health of US Central Cities
April 17, 2017
9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Cosponsored with the Urban Institute, this event will offer insights from two recent research projects funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation that explore the links between shocks to urban housing markets and central cities’ finances.
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Housing, Infrastructure, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
Cosponsored with the Urban Institute, this event will offer insights from two recent research projects funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation that explore the links between shocks to urban housing markets and central cities’ finances.
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Housing, Infrastructure, Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance
2017 Journalists Forum: Cities and Equity in the Era of the Trump Presidency
April 6, 2017 - April 8, 2017
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Event
Roundtable – Leaving Money on the Table: The Challenge of Unspent Federal Grants
March 7, 2017
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
The goal of this roundtable is to convene a cross-section of leaders from the public and private sector to explore the challenges of unspent federal grants in the context of the intergovernmental transfers system in the United States.
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Local Government, Public Finance
The goal of this roundtable is to convene a cross-section of leaders from the public and private sector to explore the challenges of unspent federal grants in the context of the intergovernmental transfers system in the United States.
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Local Government, Public Finance
The Moment to Get Cities Right
February 28, 2017
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Premiere of the mini-documentary, “The Moment to Get Cities Right: Inside Habitat III, The Urbanization Summit of a Generation,” followed by a discussion and reception.
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City and Regional Planning, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
Premiere of the mini-documentary, “The Moment to Get Cities Right: Inside Habitat III, The Urbanization Summit of a Generation,” followed by a discussion and reception.
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City and Regional Planning, Land Use and Zoning, Urbanization
How Value Capture Can Create Affordable Housing
February 10, 2017
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
David Rosen, Nora Lake-Brown, and Bryan Glascock discuss how public investments and government actions increase the value of land, and how that value can be harnessed for public benefit.
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Economic Development, Housing, Land Use and Zoning, Value Capture
David Rosen, Nora Lake-Brown, and Bryan Glascock discuss how public investments and government actions increase the value of land, and how that value can be harnessed for public benefit.
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Economic Development, Housing, Land Use and Zoning, Value Capture
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