This case study examines a campus-community partnership conducted by Clark University, the University Park Partnership. Since 1995, this partnership has focused on improving educational opportunities and other neighborhood amenities for residents of the target zone. The study compares developments in the market for housing inside and outside of the target zone after establishment of the partnership. Although the turnover of properties changed little, owner-occupancy within the target zone increased substan...

In collaboration with the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, the International Center for Land Policy Studies and Training (ICPLST) decided to invite some of the best thinkers on land and land issues to prepare papers on land-related topics that would be important between the present time and the year 2015. We believe that the papers, now chapters, in this volume have accomplished the initial goal of the conference to encourage decision makers to think about land in the context of a changing world. We think ...

The discussion on the role of universities in the community has come under sharp focus during the last two decades. Universities are increasingly being seen as engines for economic growth and community development. Although an intuitive understanding of the possibilities of positive impact of universities on the community is widely shared, actual research on such impacts is inadequate. In addition, impacts are often understood more in terms of the general economy and much less in terms of impacts on specifi...

This paper examines how school trusts that sell land for urban development may financially benefit by being patient and holding land for the longer term rather than selling it for shorter term gains. Three basic characteristics of the urban land market provide for such benefits including the underlying price path to urban development, real estate cycles, and site rent. In addition, active management and time tranching may be further means by which patience can benefit school trusts in the long run. The resu...

Development decisions made by planners on a daily basis, including those surrounding new development, zoned land uses, densities, building characteristics, parking requirements and others, have significant effects on the fiscal landscapes of their communities. To better understand how our educational system addresses fiscal issues in the training of planners, I surveyed planning instructors from across the United States and Canada and analyzed a series of public finance course syllabi. The following paper ...

The purpose of this paper is to review the role sub-national governments play in contemporary economic development, with particular reference to the United States. In the United States, municipal (local) governments play a central role in land use policy (often following model state legislation) and the provision of common infrastructure. County, multi-county, and other regional governments are central actors in the U.S. in other areas of economic development. The intergovernmental distribution of respons...

University Real-Estate Development is a new area of academic and applied inquiry that explores the ways institutions of higher education expand outside of their traditional campus boundaries. The University Real-Estate Development (URED) database is a searchable collection of real-estate projects (URED projects) undertaken by urban colleges and universities outside of or on the periphery of traditional campus boundaries. URED projects are described using institutional demographics, project demographics, and...

This case study has been prepared as part of the Lincoln Institute’s program on “The City, Universities, and Land.” It has been written by Wim Wiewel (University of Baltimore), based on presentations at a workshop held at the Lincoln Institute for Land Policy on September 18-19, 2005, by Joseph T. Maguire, Jr., John P. McQuaid, and Michael K. Owu (MIT); Gayle Farris (Forest City Enterprises); John Myers (Spaulding & Slye); and Michael Cantalupa (Boston Properties). While every effort has been made to pres...