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1. Climate and Housing Crisis

   A Research Agenda for Urban Communities
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2021
   Michael P. Johnson, Patricio Belloy, Heather MacLean, and Sajani Kandel

   Housing unaffordability and climate change adversely affect the lives of Boston area residents. These crises are amplified by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and are especially salient for low- and...

2. Climate Change Adaptation and Property Values

   A Survey of the Literature
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2021
   Katherine A. Kiel

   This paper surveys the current literature of the impact of climate change adaptation on residential property values. Several categories of adaptation are considered including ecosystem management,...

3. Scenario Planning in Small and Mid-Size Legacy Cities

   Framework and Tool Adaptations in Youngstown, Ohio
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2021
   Thomas Hilde and Hunter Morrison

   This paper examines how scenario planning frameworks and tools—largely designed for contexts of regional growth—can be adapted for land use and development planning in small and mid-size...

4. High-speed rail, market access improvement, and land market outcomes

   Evidence from China
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Agosto 2021
   Zheng Chang

   China has the most extensive high-speed rail (HSR) network in the world. This study investigated how HSR impacted the land market in China from 2004 to 2016, including land prices, supply, and...

5. The Eight Deaths of Portland’s Residential Infill Project

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Michael Andersen

   In 2020, Portland became the largest modern U.S. city to end so-called “single-family zoning,” legalizing up to four market-rate homes on almost any residential lot, or up to six homes on...

6. Eight Ingredients for a State-Level Zoning Reform

   Lessons from Oregon’s House Bill 2001
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Michael Andersen

   In 2019, Oregon passed a first-of-its-kind state law that ordered larger cities and the Portland metro area to rapidly legalize duplexes on all residential lots and fourplexes, triplexes, townhomes,...

7. Examining State Planning Enabling Laws Regarding Water Planning Requirements

   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Cassie Pettit and Sagar Shah

   This report summarizes the methodology, findings, and implications of examining and evaluating the legal requirements for water provisions within comprehensive plans in each of the 50 states. Focus...

8. Programmes, Practices, and Preconditions

   Learning from Cape Town’s Experience with One-Off Contributions from Developers
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Stephen Berrisford, Liza Rose Cirolia, and Elisabeth Makumbi

   There is increasing interest in the applicability of land-based financing instruments in subSaharan Africa. African cities are opportune sites to explore the potential of land-based financing....

9. Development Tax in France as a Tool for Land Value Capture and Social Equity

   Case Studies on Bordeaux and Strasbourg
   Documentos de Trabalho
   Julho 2021
   Sonia Guelton, Agnes Pouillaude, and David Rosen

   In a context of severe pressure on public budgets, aging urban infrastructure, and increasing pressures of urbanization, municipalities, and metropolitan regions on five continents are looking at...

10. The Statute of the Metropolis and Planning Reform in Brazil

    Analyzing Land Use Planning Practices and Metropolitan Land Conflicts
    Documentos de Trabalho
    Julho 2021
    Abigail Friendly and Felipe Francisco De Souza

    In 2015, Brazil enacted the Statute of the Metropolis (Federal Law No. 13,089) to regulate the establishment of metropolitan areas and regional public policies throughout the country. This research...