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1. Land Market Monitoring for Smart Urban Growth

   Books
   December 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...

2. The Development of Property Taxation in Economies in Transition

   Case Studies from Central and Eastern Europe
   Books
   September 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...

3. Property Taxation and Local Government Finance

   Books
   September 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...

4. Tierra vacante en ciudades latinoamericanas

   Books
   March 2001
   Edited by 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...

5. The Efficiency Gains from Agricultural Land Tax Reform

   England 1836-1855
   Working Papers
   December 2001
   Gregory Clark and Eric Jamelske

   The theoretical efficiency advantages of land site value taxation have been known since at least the time of Adam Smith. But the practical gains from switching taxation of land to this basis have...

6. Current Value Assessment in the Greater Toronto Area

   Impacts and Policy Implications
   Working Papers
   December 2001
   David P. Amborski and James H. Mars

   The political response to the redistributive impacts of the property tax assessment reform in Ontario has caused a long period of controversy. The modern reform process began in 1967 and in 1997, the...

7. Distance Learning for New England's Forests

   Land Lines Magazine
   November 2001
   Charles H.W. Foster

   The Forest Setting Forests presently cover approximately 25 percent of the world's land surface, excluding Greenland and Antarctica. Two-thirds of this important renewable natural resource lies in...

8. Política del suelo, mercados inmobiliarios y segregación espacial urbana

   Land Lines Magazine
   November 2001
   Allegra Calder and Rosalind Greenstein

   Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 5 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. ¿Es la segregación...

9. Land Policy, Land Markets and Urban Spatial Segregation

   Land Lines Magazine
   November 2001
   Allegra Calder and Rosalind Greenstein

   Is urban spatial segregation a consequence of the normal functioning of urban land markets, reflecting cumulative individual choices? Or, is it a result of the malfunctioning of urban land markets...

10. Land Lines, November 2001

    Land Lines Magazine
    November 2001
    Edited by Ann LeRoyer

    This issue looks at the impact of land markets and land policies on spatially-oriented segregation in urban areas of Latin America and elsewhere; and the Lincoln Institute’s distance-based...