This issue provides an overview of various property taxation methods utilized by European countries; an analysis of Latin America’s urban sprawl patterns and land regulation challenges; and a look at the planning and design of postwar suburbs and urban areas in the U.S. during the first half of the 20th century.

This issue explores the increasingly common and successful phenomenon of urban farming, and the need for more of it, in the U.S.; participatory budgeting and power politics in Brazil’s Porto Alegre; and dysfunctional residential land markets in Texas.