This issue looks at the effects of urban growth controls on housing prices and landowner behavior in the U.S., as well as local government and property tax reforms in South Africa. It also offers a reconsideration of value capture policies in Latin America so as to enact policies with more redistributive outcomes.

This issue features the political, operational, and other challenges of implementing Cuba’s value capture tool, Participación en Plusvalías; the use of land value mechanisms to promote commercial and economic development in Colombia; and new, innovative approaches to solving complex planning quandaries in Italy.