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1. Podcast: Paige Cognetti and the Reinvention of Scranton

   Vídeos e Multimídia
   Dezembro 2023
   Season 4, Episode 7 of the Land Matters podcast with Anthony Flint and Paige Cognetti.

   The postindustrial city of Scranton, Pennsylvania, developed some curiously 21st century claims to fame. But now the city of 75,000 is setting its sights on new strategies for equitable economic revitalization, as Mayor Paige Cognetti explains.

2. Podcast: Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin and the Realities of Revitalization

   Vídeos e Multimídia
   Março 2022
   Season 3, Episode 2 of the Land Matters podcast with Anthony Flint and Randall Woodfin. 

   Randall Woodfin, Birmingham’s “millennial mayor” and rising star in Alabama politics, has launched an urban mechanic’s agenda for revitalizing that post-industrial city:...

3. Metropolitan Governance and Finance in São Paulo

   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Deborah L. Wetzel

   With a population of 11.2 million residents, São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere, and the world’s seventh largest city by population. The city is...

4. Financing Cities

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2010
   Robert P. Inman

   Cities and their surrounding suburban neighborhoods are economic growth agents. Not only do they provide public goods to satisfy the needs of urban residents, but they also supply local...

5. Metropolitan Public Finance

   An Overview
   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack

   This paper by Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack is based on their observation that not all big cities are very rich, but they are all, by definition, big, and most of them are also rich relative to...

6. Paying for Urbanization in China

   Challenges of Municipal Finance in the Twenty-First Century
   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Christine P. Wong

   China is urbanizing, and the pace is accelerating. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) reported a population of 1.34 billion at year end 2010, fully half of them living in cities (CSY 2011)....

7. Local Nonproperty Revenues

   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

   In this paper, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez focuses on the current theory and practice of non-property tax assignments to local urban governments in developing and developed countries. Although the...

8. Metropolitan Public Finances

   The Case of Mumbai
   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Abhay Pethe

   In an attempt to understand public finance in metropolitan regions, this paper by Abhay Pethe presents an analysis of the issues faced by one of the most important urban agglomerations in India: the...

9. Grant Financing of Metropolitan Areas

   A Review of Principles and Worldwide Practices
   Artigos de Conferências
   Abril 2013
   Anwar M. Shah

   The amounts spent for public services provided in most metropolitan areas are much larger than own-source revenues of local governments, which means that much of the job of financing local services...

10. External Assistance for Urban Finance Development

    Artigos de Conferências
    Abril 2013
    Homi Kharas and Johannes F. Linn

    In this paper, Homi Kharas and Johannes F. Linn address two sets of questions. First, what is known about the amount of aid that supports urban development in developing countries relative to...