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1. 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:...

2. Houston on the Front Lines of Sprawl

   Vídeos e Multimídia
   Abril 2021
   Speaker: William Fulton

   A presentation and dialogue with Bill Fulton, Director, Kinder Institute for Urban Research, Rice University.

3. Increasing the Effectiveness of Public Service Delivery

   A Tournament Approach
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Clifford F. Zinnes

   Interjurisdictional competition under fiscal decentralization may give local governments the incentive to lower their environmental policy standards or grant businesses with lucrative tax exemptions...

4. A Cross-Country Comparison of Decentralization and Environmental Protection

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Hilary Sigman

   Hilary Sigman presents a cross-country analysis of the relationships between decentralization and environmental quality. She employs four measures in her study: (1) access to improved sanitation; (2...

5. Decentralization and Environmental Decision Making

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Shelby Gerking

   Shelby Gerking analyzes the effect of state tax rates on the disposal of chlorinated solvent wastes in the United States. He finds that changes in the disposal costs of these chemicals as a result of...

6. Should Decreases in Property Value Caused by Regulations Be Compensated?

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2009
   Abraham Bell

   Ideally, government could recoup the benefits of land use planning and redistribute them to those who bear the costs. In this case takings compensation is justified. Given the reciprocal nature of...

7. Restricting Residential Construction

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2007
   Edward L. Glaeser

   In this paper, Edward L. Glaeser analyzes how land use regulations have affected housing costs in selected U.S. cities, and he looks at the welfare effects of zoning on the economy and nonpropertied...