Land Lines

Current Issue: Fall/Winter 2024

This issue includes an exploration of the historic federal investment in clean energy manufacturing in legacy cities, a photographic guide to density, and conversations with researchers who are past recipients of Lincoln Institute fellowships.

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July 2016

In this issue, we feature articles on managed retreat, gentle infill, verifying green bonds, and subsidized Uber in the suburbs, as well as a policy brief on nonprofit PILOTs (payments in lieu of taxes).

April 2016

In this issue, we feature articles on alternatives to a bill that would kill the school property tax in Pennsylvania, exploratory scenario planning, post-disaster recovery planning, CoUrbanize’s online community planning forum, and more.

February 2016

In this issue, we debut our logo redesign and preview two important new books by Lincoln Institute program directors: A Good Tax: Legal and Policy Issues for the Property Tax in the United States, by Joan Youngman, and Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning, edited by Armando Carbonell along with Frederick R. Steiner and George F. Thompson.

October 2015

In this issue, we feature articles on water as a cash crop in the West, technology cures for municipal fiscal health, and the Working Cities challenge.

July 2015

This issue highlights eco-friendly and affordable manufactured homes of the 21st century; burgeoning yet illicit residential development in China; and the evolution of community land trusts from grassroots groups. It also looks at WalkYourCity.org, a digital tool intended to boost communities’ walkability; and sheds light on the impacts of land use regulations in Latin America from the perspective of an Argentinian-based urban economist.

April 2015

This issue looks at the ubiquity of informal settlements in Peru and the corresponding risk of property titles; revitalization and stakeholder engagement efforts in Detroit; and the first comprehensive study of property tax credits and residential tax exemptions in the U.S. It also features a new digital tool created to track blighted properties.