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1. Using Assisted Negotiation to Settle Land Use Disputes

   A Guidebook for Public Officials
   Books
   July 1999
   Lawrence Susskind, Ole Amundsen, and Masahiro Matsuura

   As land use issues become more complex, it is difficult for public officials to balance the contending forces of environmental protection, economic development, and local autonomy. This guidebook,...

2. Implementing Property Taxation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

   Land Lines Magazine
   November 1999
   C. Kurt Zorn, Jean Tesche, and Gary Cornia

   The state of Bosnia and Herzegovina continues its long process of reconstruction and reconciliation, four years after the November 1995 signing of the Dayton Peace Accords, which marked the end of a...

3. Redefinición de los derechos de propiedad en la era de la liberalización y la privatización

   Land Lines Magazine
   November 1999
   Edésio Fernandes

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 2 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. En países...

4. Redefining Property Rights in the Age of Liberalization and Privatization

   Land Lines Magazine
   November 1999
   Edesio Fernandes

   An apparent paradox exists in developing countries between a more progressive definition of property rights and current trends toward privatization. On one hand, most proposals and programs of urban...

5. Desalojos forzosos y derechos humanos en Colombia

   Land Lines Magazine
   November 1999
   Margaret Everett

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 2 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. Muchos gobiernos...

6. Human Rights and Evictions of the Urban Poor in Colombia

   Land Lines Magazine
   November 1999
   Margaret Everett

   Although many governments in Latin America have improved the process of legalizing peripheral settlements, recognized the rights of housing, and acknowledged the United Nations' position on evictions...

7. Land Lines, November 1999

   Land Lines Magazine
   November 1999
   Edited by Ann LeRoyer

   This issue explores human rights and eviction issues experienced by Colombia’s impoverished urban populations, the implementation of property taxes in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a reassessment...

8. Improving the Accuracy of Downtown Land Assessments

   Working Papers
   November 1999
   Richard Ashley, Florenz Plassmann, and Nicolaus Tideman

   A tax that is levied on the value of land alone, irrespective of any improvements to land, does not cause any economic distortions. Levying such a tax requires an ability to estimate the value of...

9. Urban Development Options for California's Central Valley

   Land Lines Magazine
   September 1999
   William Fulton

   For more than a century, California's Great Central Valley has been recognized as one of the world's foremost agricultural regions. A giant basin 450 miles long and averaging 50 miles wide, the...

10. Desafíos que confronta el sistema fiscal sobre la propiedad inmobiliaria en Porto Alegre, Brasil

    Land Lines Magazine
    September 1999
    Claudia M. De Cesare

    Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 3 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. El impuesto brasileño a...