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1. Sistemas de información geográfica aplicados a estudios urbanos

   Experiencias latinoamericanas
   Books
   December 2006
   Edited by Diego Alfonso Erba

   This volume, Sistemas de información geográfica aplicados a estudios urbanos: Experiencias latinoamericanas (Geographic Information Systems Applied to Urban Studies: Latin American...

2. The Humane Metropolis

   People and Nature in the 21st-Century City
   Books
   October 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...

3. The Tiebout Model at Fifty

   Essays in Public Economics in Honor of Wallace Oates
   Books
   June 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...

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

   The Case of Commonly Owned Land in Rural South Africa
   Books
   April 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...

5. Legal Issues in Property Valuation and Taxation

   Cases and Materials
   Books
   January 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...

6. Public Finance Concepts for Planners

   Working Papers
   December 2006
   Randall Crane

   What should planners be taught about public finance? This paper has three primary goals: First, to revisit the proper facilitating roles of public planning in the private economy; second, to...

7. Voting for Public Funding of Open Space

   Working Papers
   November 2006
   Jeffrey O. Sundberg

   Over one thousand conservation referenda have been on ballots across the country between 2000 and 2005. More than three-quarters of them have been approved by voters. This public form of land...

8. Report from the President

   Changes in Institute Programs and Activities
   Land Lines Magazine
   October 2006
   Gregory K. Ingram

   The content of the Institute’s work program has evolved significantly over the past two years, and its annual activities have increased by about half since 2004. Reflecting this evolution and growth...

9. London's Large-scale Regeneration Projects Offer Community Benefits

   Land Lines Magazine
   October 2006
   Randy Gragg

   Models of urban regeneration such as the Tate Modern and Canary Wharf lured the 2006 Loeb Fellows from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design to London for their annual study trip,...

10. Conservation Incentives in America's Heartland

    Land Lines Magazine
    October 2006
    James N. Levitt

    Inspired by the work of Aldo Leopold, conservation leaders explore three types of incentive programs to achieve land conservation in an economically efficient, measurably effective, and reasonably...