Publicações

Março 2001, inglês

The study of property taxation in Europe offers special challenges because each country has a different definition of land and property, and a different approach to local property taxation. The term property often includes both land and buildings, but may also include plants and machinery as well as certain possessions, such as automobiles. In Denmark, […]

Março 2001, inglês

Urban sprawl has generated many studies, discussions and policies in the United States, but in Latin America the expansion of large cities has received relatively little attention, even though very large and rapidly growing cities are a widely recognized characteristic of the region. Several reasons may explain this disparity: the belated urbanization process in most […]

Março 2001, inglês

Fevereiro 2001, inglês

Janeiro 2001, inglês

When people think of growing food in the United States, the images that come to mind are vast stretches of vegetable and fruit tree farms in California’s Central Valley, golden fields of wheat in the Plains states, and cows grazing on verdant rural landscapes in the Midwest and New England. Rarely is the image one […]

Janeiro 2001, espanhol

Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 7 del CD-ROM Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Un mecanismo creciente de producción de suelo y vivienda en los Estados Unidos lo constituyen las subdivisiones comunitarias automanejadas de bajos recursos, denominadas “colonias” en Texas. En un […]

Janeiro 2001, inglês

Low-income, self-managed homestead subdivisions, called colonias in Texas, are a rapidly expanding form of land and housing production in the United States. In a recently completed Lincoln Institute-supported study, I have analyzed the dysfunctional aspects of these land markets as measured by a high level of absentee lot ownership, modest lot and property transactions and […]

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 […]