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Land Lines January 2019
January 2019, English
January 2019, English
The Tax Autonomy of Local Governments in the United States
January 2019, English
January 2019, English
New Publication
Integrating Water Efficiency into Land Use Planning in the Interior West: A Guidebook for Local Planners
January 2019, English
Las Vegas residents receive $3 for every square foot of grass they replace with drought-tolerant landscaping. In Morro Bay, California, developers must retrofit existing housing stock to save twice the water demanded by new development. Chandler, Arizona, offers awards and incentives to developments that meet green building standards. These are just a few of […]
January 2019, English
Las Vegas residents receive $3 for every square foot of grass they replace with drought-tolerant landscaping. In Morro Bay, California, developers must retrofit existing housing stock to save twice the water demanded by new development. Chandler, Arizona, offers awards and incentives to developments that meet green building standards. These are just a few of […]
Distributive Impacts and Support for Mass Transportation Projects
An Experimental Evaluation in Bogotá, Colombia
December 2018, English
December 2018, English
Boston’s Open Space and Sea Level Rise
An Assessment of the Role of Open Spaces in Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change-Related Sea Level Rise and Flooding
December 2018, English
December 2018, English
Understanding Changes in the Geography of Opportunity
The Case of Santiago, Chile
December 2018, English
December 2018, English
How Auctioning Building Rights Can Help Fund Infrastructure and Affordable Housing
December 2018, English
As U.S. cities struggle to provide adequate infrastructure and affordable housing, many are underutilizing one of their greatest assets: the land on which they sit. Cities generate large increases in the value of land when they change zoning regulations to enable new development or invest in public works projects, but private landowners typically capture the […]
December 2018, English
As U.S. cities struggle to provide adequate infrastructure and affordable housing, many are underutilizing one of their greatest assets: the land on which they sit. Cities generate large increases in the value of land when they change zoning regulations to enable new development or invest in public works projects, but private landowners typically capture the […]
Hydraulic Empire
Sharing a Legacy, Carving a Future for the Colorado River
December 2018, English
For six centuries, a people called the Hohokam inhabited central Arizona. Among their many accomplishments, they created a hydraulic empire of sorts, a spiderlike web of canals intended to deliver water from the Gila and Salt rivers—tributaries of the mighty Colorado—to their agricultural fields. Eventually, the Hohokam abandoned their fields and canals. To this […]
December 2018, English
For six centuries, a people called the Hohokam inhabited central Arizona. Among their many accomplishments, they created a hydraulic empire of sorts, a spiderlike web of canals intended to deliver water from the Gila and Salt rivers—tributaries of the mighty Colorado—to their agricultural fields. Eventually, the Hohokam abandoned their fields and canals. To this […]
