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1. The Humane Metropolis

   People and Nature in the 21st-Century City
   Livros
   Outubro 2006
   Edited by Rutherford H. Platt

   Four-fifths of Americans now live in the nation’s sprawling metropolitan areas, and half of the world’s population is now classified as “urban.” As cities become the dominant...

2. The Tiebout Model at Fifty

   Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates
   Livros
   Junho 2006
   Edited by William A. Fischel

   The Tiebout Model at Fifty commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Charles Tiebout’s enormously influential 1956 article, “A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures,” and honors the...

3. Implementing a Local Property Tax Where There Is No Real Estate Market

   The Case of Commonly Owned Land in Rural South Africa
   Livros
   Abril 2006
   Michael E. Bell and John H. Bowman

   Since 1995 the authors have worked on a series of property taxation projects in South Africa, funded in part by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. South Africa envisions extending value-based...

4. Legal Issues in Property Valuation and Taxation

   Cases and Materials
   Livros
   Janeiro 2006
   Joan Youngman, with a new foreword by David Brunori

   This "go-to" book for lawyers, law students, and policy makers brings together important legal cases and materials on the fundamental legal issues concerning valuation, tax poplicy, and the...

5. Planning Policy and Politics

   Smart Growth and the States
   Livros
   Novembro 2005
   John M. DeGrove

   Updating his two previous books on growth management in the states, John M. DeGrove examines the history and current systems for planning and smart growth in nine states: Oregon, Florida, New Jersey...

6. From Walden to Wall Street

   Frontiers of Conservation Finance
   Livros
   Outubro 2005
   Edited by James N. Levitt

   In the absence of innovation in the field of conservation finance, a daunting funding gap faces conservationists aiming to protect America’s system of landscapes that provide sustainable...

7. The University as Urban Developer

   Case Studies and Analysis
   Livros
   Maio 2005
   Edited by David C. Perry and Wim Wiewel

   University-based property development is an important element of urban formation. Yet there is little information available to explain the significance of the university presence in urban development...

8. Emerging Land and Housing Markets in China

   Livros
   Março 2005
   Edited by Chengri Ding and Yan Song

   Land and housing policies are of fundamental importance to sustainable economic growth and the well-being of the rapidly growing Chinese population. Therefore, research on land and housing policy...

9. Practical Ecology for Planners, Developers, and Citizens

   Livros
   Novembro 2004
   Dan L. Perlman and Jeffrey C. Milder

   In recent years, the practice of ecologically based planning and development has emerged as a way to safeguard human communities from natural hazards and to protect natural systems from the impacts...

10. Recycling the City

    The Use and Reuse of Urban Land
    Livros
    Novembro 2004
    Edited by Rosalind Greenstein and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz

    This collection of essays examines underutilized, abandoned, and vacant urban land within political, economic, institutional, and policy contexts. In the volume’s three sections, the authors...