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1. Governing and Financing Cities in the Developing World

   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Mayo 2014
   Roy W. Bahl and Johannes F. Linn

   The economic activity that drives growth in developing countries is heavily concentrated in urban areas. Big cities generate the most dynamic economic development, the strongest links to the global...

2. Arrested Developments

   Combating Zombie Subdivisions and Other Excess Entitlements
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Enero 2014
   Jim Holway, Don Elliott, and Anna Trentadue

   Drawing on case studies, survey results, and data analyses of abandoned residential development projects in the U.S. Intermountain West, this report shows local leaders how to identify and overcome...

3. School Quality, School Choice, and Residential Mobility

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Eric Brunner

   Eric J. Brunner reviews two areas of research concerning the link between residential location and school quality: (1) the long-standing and growing literature on the effects of a residentially based...

4. The School Attendance and Residential Location Balancing Act

   Community, Choice, Diversity, and Achievement
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Ellen Goldring and Walker Swain

   Ellen B. Goldring and Walker Swain evaluate the impact parental choices have on residential location and schooling. This paper is divided into three loosely chronological sections that focus in turn...

5. Admissions to Academy Schools in England

   School Composition and House Prices
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Stephen Machin and Anne West

   England has had various forms of school choice for decades. Stephen Machin and Anne West focus on the introduction of academy schools, a new form of secondary school, in 2000. Academies are broadly...

6. Beyond “Accidents of Geography”

   Using Housing Policy to Improve Access to Quality Education
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2014
   Elizabeth Mueller and Shannon Van Zandt

   Elizabeth J. Mueller and Shannon S. Van Zandt argue that private restrictive covenants, land use and zoning regulations, and federal housing policies have played a major role in creating income and...

7. Instrumentos notables de políticas de suelo en América Latina

   Libros
   Abril 2014
   Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda Furtado

   Based on work presented at the May 2013 Latin American Forum on Noteworthy Instruments of Urban Intervention, this book (which includes work written in Spanish and Portuguese) presents 21 case...

8. Detroit Property Tax Delinquency

   Social Contract in Crisis
   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2014
   James Alm, Timothy R. Hodge, Gary Sands, and Mark Skidmore

   As the country reemerges from the real estate crisis, the City of Detroit, Michigan continues to struggle, and is currently in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings. Falling property values have led to...

9. Achieving Lasting Affordability through Inclusionary Housing

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2014
   Robert Hickey, Lisa Sturtevant, and Emily Thaden

   Inclusionary housing policies are local land use policies that link approvals for market-rate housing to the creation of affordable homes for low- and moderate-income households. The primary goals of...

10. Un instrumento en condiciones de emergencia

    Expropiación y reconstrucción habitacional en la Ciudad de México después del sismo de 1985
    Documentos de trabajo
    Noviembre 2014
    Antonio Azuela

    En la historia reciente de México es difícil encontrar una operación urbanística tan exitosa como la reconstrucción habitacional posterior al sismo de septiembre de 1985. No solo se restablecieron o...