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Land Lines, October 2015
Edited by Maureen Clarke
October 2015, English
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.
City and Regional Planning, Public Finance, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
October 2015, English
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.
City and Regional Planning, Public Finance, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
Message from the President
Helping Communities to Help Themselves
October 2015, English
Before joining the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, I covered the Detroit beat for almost a decade for the Ford Foundation. There I was able to witness firsthand the unprecedented challenges involved in reversing the fortunes of the most powerful and important U.S. city of the mid-20th century. The enormity of these challenges called forth […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
October 2015, English
Before joining the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, I covered the Detroit beat for almost a decade for the Ford Foundation. There I was able to witness firsthand the unprecedented challenges involved in reversing the fortunes of the most powerful and important U.S. city of the mid-20th century. The enormity of these challenges called forth […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
Muni Finance
The Visual Budget Lets Taxpayers Follow the Money
By Loren Berlin
October 2015, English
An informed citizenry is an empowered one, but educating taxpayers and voters can be difficult. While most people care deeply about various community issues—such as whether to build a new library branch or provide curbside recycling—very few of us spend our limited free time paging through spreadsheets to understand the specifics of a municipal budget […]
Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance, Technology and Tools
October 2015, English
An informed citizenry is an empowered one, but educating taxpayers and voters can be difficult. While most people care deeply about various community issues—such as whether to build a new library branch or provide curbside recycling—very few of us spend our limited free time paging through spreadsheets to understand the specifics of a municipal budget […]
Local Government, Property Tax, Public Finance, Technology and Tools
The Super Ditch
Can Water Become a Cash Crop in the West?
By Scott Campbell
October 2015, English
Peter Nichols is an avid outdoorsman and one of Colorado’s leading water law attorneys. It’s not uncommon to see him enter the lobby of his Boulder office at Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti—a room with stone, hardwoods, and a sharp-dressed receptionist—in wrinkled attorney attire and a pair of worn river sandals. By his own reckoning, […]
Economic Development, Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Conservation
October 2015, English
Peter Nichols is an avid outdoorsman and one of Colorado’s leading water law attorneys. It’s not uncommon to see him enter the lobby of his Boulder office at Berg Hill Greenleaf & Ruscitti—a room with stone, hardwoods, and a sharp-dressed receptionist—in wrinkled attorney attire and a pair of worn river sandals. By his own reckoning, […]
Economic Development, Environment, Land and Property Rights, Land Conservation
Back to the Future
The Working Cities Challenge Helps MA Cities Rebuild on Industrial Pasts
By Billy Hamilton
October 2015, English
Holyoke, a city of about 40,000 in western Massachusetts, was one of the nation’s first planned industrial communities. Beginning in the late 1840s, Boston investors transformed what had been a farming area into a mill town, taking advantage of its location along the Connecticut River. The investors wanted to manufacture cotton textiles. But over time […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Public Finance, Urbanization
October 2015, English
Holyoke, a city of about 40,000 in western Massachusetts, was one of the nation’s first planned industrial communities. Beginning in the late 1840s, Boston investors transformed what had been a farming area into a mill town, taking advantage of its location along the Connecticut River. The investors wanted to manufacture cotton textiles. But over time […]
City and Regional Planning, Economic Development, Public Finance, Urbanization
Tecnociudad
Chattanooga—La gigaciudad
October 2015, Spanish
El acceso universal a internet de alta velocidad es un sueño generalizado en estos tiempos. Todos, desde el presidente de Google, Inc. hasta cualquiera de nosotros, lo hemos anhelado. Y la prensa tecnológica se inunda de irritadas críticas, preguntándose por qué las velocidades de banda ancha habituales en los Estados Unidos están tan retrasadas con […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
October 2015, Spanish
El acceso universal a internet de alta velocidad es un sueño generalizado en estos tiempos. Todos, desde el presidente de Google, Inc. hasta cualquiera de nosotros, lo hemos anhelado. Y la prensa tecnológica se inunda de irritadas críticas, preguntándose por qué las velocidades de banda ancha habituales en los Estados Unidos están tan retrasadas con […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
City Tech
Chattanooga’s Big Gig
By Rob Walker
October 2015, English
Universal high-speed Internet access is a popular dream these days—everyone from the president to Google, Inc., has embraced it. And the tech press is full of testy critiques wondering why typical broadband speeds in the United States lag so far behind those in, say, South Korea. Just five years ago, this wasn’t such a hot […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
October 2015, English
Universal high-speed Internet access is a popular dream these days—everyone from the president to Google, Inc., has embraced it. And the tech press is full of testy critiques wondering why typical broadband speeds in the United States lag so far behind those in, say, South Korea. Just five years ago, this wasn’t such a hot […]
City and Regional Planning, Technology and Tools, Urbanization
La trazabilidad del progreso
PolicyMap democratiza el análisis de datos
Alex Ulam
October 2015, Spanish
El precio de la vivienda está subiendo en espiral en muchas áreas de los estados unidos, limitando la capacidad de los estadounidenses para ahorrar, y llevando al aburguesamiento a barrios que antes eran asequibles. No obstante, como con muchos desafíos de política pública, no siempre se puede determinar a simple vista dónde se encuentran los […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Technology and Tools
October 2015, Spanish
El precio de la vivienda está subiendo en espiral en muchas áreas de los estados unidos, limitando la capacidad de los estadounidenses para ahorrar, y llevando al aburguesamiento a barrios que antes eran asequibles. No obstante, como con muchos desafíos de política pública, no siempre se puede determinar a simple vista dónde se encuentran los […]
City and Regional Planning, Housing, Technology and Tools
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