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Relocalizaciones Urbanas y Riesgos Ambientales
Un análisis de los casos de Magaldi y Villa 26 en la cuenca Matanza Riachuelo (Argentina)
May 2017, Spanish
May 2017, Spanish
Evaluation of Real Property Tax Abatements in Franklin County, Ohio
May 2017, English
May 2017, English
Land Lines, April 2017
April 2017, English
This issue looks at value capture; business tax incentives; what app data can do for city planners; the latest comprehensive plans in Denver, Seattle, and Boston; and the Capital Absorption Framework for community investment.
April 2017, English
This issue looks at value capture; business tax incentives; what app data can do for city planners; the latest comprehensive plans in Denver, Seattle, and Boston; and the Capital Absorption Framework for community investment.
Message from the President
Values and the Value of Land
April 2017, English
At the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, our activity centers on policy-relevant research and training. We are nonpartisan, and our work defaults to objective and evidence-based analysis. We pose questions and test hypotheses that can be answered empirically—through dispassionate inquiry and defensible methodology yielding results supported by data. We do not espouse or advocate for […]
April 2017, English
At the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, our activity centers on policy-relevant research and training. We are nonpartisan, and our work defaults to objective and evidence-based analysis. We pose questions and test hypotheses that can be answered empirically—through dispassionate inquiry and defensible methodology yielding results supported by data. We do not espouse or advocate for […]
City Tech
What App Data Can Do for City Planners
April 2017, English
Founded in 2009 as a “social network for athletes,” San Francisco–based Strava is today best known for its popular smartphone app, used by millions of people all over the world to track and share their biking, running, and walking activity. Some users are serious athletes, but plenty simply track commutes or routine exercise excursions as […]
April 2017, English
Founded in 2009 as a “social network for athletes,” San Francisco–based Strava is today best known for its popular smartphone app, used by millions of people all over the world to track and share their biking, running, and walking activity. Some users are serious athletes, but plenty simply track commutes or routine exercise excursions as […]
Landing Capital
The Capital Absorption Framework for Community Investment
April 2017, English
Since 2015, representatives from various public agencies, foundations, and nonprofit groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Denver have been jointly participating in “capital absorption” workshops, to forge solutions to local affordable housing shortages through strategies that attract land, capital, and other resources. They represent not just housing, but transit, planning, and […]
April 2017, English
Since 2015, representatives from various public agencies, foundations, and nonprofit groups in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Denver have been jointly participating in “capital absorption” workshops, to forge solutions to local affordable housing shortages through strategies that attract land, capital, and other resources. They represent not just housing, but transit, planning, and […]
No Little Plans
The Evolution of the Comprehensive Plan
April 2017, English
Comprehensive plans can inspire their creators to tap their highest and best professional skills, training, and vision—or cause them to question their choice of profession. They often take a couple years to produce and can require extensive community outreach, sometimes with rancorous results—if, for example, the community has strong opposing opinions about a vision for […]
April 2017, English
Comprehensive plans can inspire their creators to tap their highest and best professional skills, training, and vision—or cause them to question their choice of profession. They often take a couple years to produce and can require extensive community outreach, sometimes with rancorous results—if, for example, the community has strong opposing opinions about a vision for […]
Muni Finance
Making Tax Incentives Work: Lessons from Boston, Massachusetts
April 2017, English
The use of tax incentives to encourage economic growth has increased over the last several decades. Given this escalation, it is important for policy makers to employ techniques that promote growth while avoiding practices that needlessly erode the tax base. Tax incentive policies must balance the desire to stimulate job growth and economic activity with […]
April 2017, English
The use of tax incentives to encourage economic growth has increased over the last several decades. Given this escalation, it is important for policy makers to employ techniques that promote growth while avoiding practices that needlessly erode the tax base. Tax incentive policies must balance the desire to stimulate job growth and economic activity with […]
