Buscar

Results

1. Land Value Taxation in Britain

   Experience and Opportunities
   Livros
   Abril 2004
   Owen Connellan, with Nathaniel Lichfield, Frances Plimmer, and Tony Vickers

   Attempts at introducing land value taxation (LVT) in the United Kingdom demonstrate a long and varied history. Land Value Taxation in Britain considers this history and how LVT may be particularly...

2. Leasing Public Land

   Policy Debates and International Experiences
   Livros
   Abril 2003
   Edited by Steven C. Bourassa and Yu-Hung Hong

   Leasing public land has been advocated as a viable land tenure option for former socialist countries and other transitional economies. However, the debate about land tenure has been influenced more...

3. Mega-Projects

   The Challenging Politics of Urban Public Investment
   Livros
   Abril 2003
   Alan Altshuler and David Luberoff

   Since the demise of urban renewal in the early 1970s, the politics of large-scale public investment in urban areas has received little scholarly attention. This book examines the forces that gave...

4. Progress and Poverty

   Livros
   Janeiro 2003
   Henry George

   Subtitled “An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth...The Remedy,” this classic book, published originally in 1879, presents...

5. European Spatial Planning

   Livros
   Dezembro 2002
   Edited by Andreas Faludi

   The European Spatial Development Perspective (ESDP) was adopted in 1999 after more than ten years of intensive, transnational networking across linguistic and cultural divides. However, Europe’...

6. Property Taxes in South Africa

   Challenges in the Post-Apartheid Era
   Livros
   Março 2002
   Edited by Michael E. Bell and John H. Bowman

   Editors Michael E. Bell and John H. Bowman have assembled the first comprehensive overview of the challenges of adapting property taxation to the many changes brought about by the end of apartheid in...

7. Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth

   Livros
   Dezembro 2001
   Edited by Gerrit J. Knaap

   The fundamental debate about urban growth—no growth, slow growth, go growth—will never be resolved, but there is general agreement that urban growth will occur, that it needs some type of...

8. The Development of Property Taxation in Economies in Transition

   Case Studies from Central and Eastern Europe
   Livros
   Setembro 2001
   Edited by Jane H. Malme and Joan M. Youngman

   In the 1990s, Central and Eastern Europe transitioned from communist to market economies and property taxation took on an important role as many countries developed new fiscal policies and new...

9. Property Taxation and Local Government Finance

   Livros
   Setembro 2001
   Edited by Wallace E. Oates

   The property tax is unpopular among both scholars and taxpayers, yet many scholars have proposed ideas to rehabilitate this tax and its role in local public finance. Based on a 2000 Lincoln Institute...

10. Tierra vacante en ciudades latinoamericanas

    Livros
    Março 2001
    Editado por Nora Clichevsky

    Vacant urban land is the product of many combined factors, including the functioning of land markets, the actions of private agents, and the policies of public agents, and it constitutes an important...