Publicações

Janeiro 2001, espanhol

Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 6 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En octubre del año 2000, los ciudadanos de casi la mitad de las 60 principales ciudades brasileñas, agraviados por décadas de pobreza y ola delictiva, además de pésimos […]

Janeiro 2001, inglês

Responding to decades of poverty, poor housing, inadequate health care, rampant crime, deficient schools, poorly planned infrastructure, and inequitable access to services, citizens in about half of Brazil’s 60 major cities voted in October 2000 for mayors from left-wing parties noted for advocacy, honesty and transparency. These reform administrations are introducing new hopes and expectations, […]

Janeiro 2001, inglês

Janeiro 2001, espanhol

Novembro 2000, inglês

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 groups, in other places, ethnicity or religion, while in still other places, income status. In our experiences with the Americas, we find that international […]

Novembro 2000, espanhol

Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 5 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. La segregación espacial es una característica de las metrópolis, de San Diego a Boston, de Santiago a Ciudad del Cabo, de Belfast a Bangalore. En algunos lugares está […]

Novembro 2000, inglês

The property tax in Indiana has long generated considerable public policy debate, centering on the methods prescribed by the state to determine property values. Most states use some form of market value as the assessment standard, but Indiana relies on “true tax value.” Indiana law defines this as “the value determined under the rules of […]

Novembro 2000, inglês

Seeking to reactivate discussion of regionalism in the twenty-first century, Armando Carbonell, senior fellow and director of the Lincoln Institute’s Program on Land as Common Property, and Robert Yaro, executive director of the Regional Plan Association (RPA), convened a roundtable in New York last April, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Planning […]