Land Lines
Current Quarterly
April 2024
This issue explores cities rethinking street surfaces in response to climate change, factors influencing home buyers to consider climate risk, the work of Seattle's Black Home Initiative to address affordability and inequity, and more.
February 2016
In this issue, we debut our logo redesign and preview two important new books by Lincoln Institute program directors: A Good Tax: Legal and Policy Issues for the Property Tax in the United States, by Joan Youngman, and Nature and Cities: The Ecological Imperative in Urban Design and Planning, edited by Armando Carbonell along with Frederick R. Steiner and George F. Thompson.
October 2015
In this issue, we feature articles on water as a cash crop in the West, technology cures for municipal fiscal health, and the Working Cities challenge.
July 2015
This issue highlights eco-friendly and affordable manufactured homes of the 21st century; burgeoning yet illicit residential development in China; and the evolution of community land trusts from grassroots groups. It also looks at WalkYourCity.org, a digital tool intended to boost communities’ walkability; and sheds light on the impacts of land use regulations in Latin America from the perspective of an Argentinian-based urban economist.
April 2015
This issue looks at the ubiquity of informal settlements in Peru and the corresponding risk of property titles; revitalization and stakeholder engagement efforts in Detroit; and the first comprehensive study of property tax credits and residential tax exemptions in the U.S. It also features a new digital tool created to track blighted properties.
February 2015
This issue looks at community development strategies involving anchor institutions; the policy challenges and legal issues of homeowner associations; and a national workshop focused on large landscape conservation.
October 2014
This issue explores the dynamics of Beijing’s low-income rental housing market; a vision to revitalize Detroit by reclaiming vacant, blighted parcels for public use and open space; and the critical need for investments in functioning sewage systems and other basic infrastructure to manage Brazil’s rapid population growth.
July 2014
This issue looks at walkability-focused revitalization strategies for lifeless suburban areas; winning projects—based in Manhattan, New Jersey, and elsewhere—of a federally-sponsored competition that promotes climate resilience and urban livability through innovative planning and design; and a two-day workshop on infrastructure for journalists at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
April 2014
This issue explores the support that Community Land Trusts can provide urban farmers as they grapple with land use, zoning, and property tax regulations; the financially burdensome British “window tax” of the 1600s; and the challenges of public land acquisitions in Latin America from the perspective of a socio-legal expert.
January 2014
This issue explores the successes of three U.S. Intermountain West communities in remedying distressed land subdivisions; the distribution of residential wealth in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro, and the various factors that determine residential property values; and the detrimental effects of foreclosures on local government revenues, land values, and property taxes.
October 2013
This issue looks at integrated coastal zone management tactics of Barbados; state-owned lands in the U.S. Intermountain West that offer opportunities for education-related funding and renewable energy creation; and the advantages and costs of property tax assessments that are intended to help preserve open space.
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