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Participatory Budgeting and Power Politics in Porto Alegre
William W. Goldsmith and Carlos B. Vainer
January 2001, English
Responding to decades of poverty, poor housing, inadequate health care, rampant crime, deficient schools, poorly planned infrastructure, and inequitable access to services, citizens in about half of Brazil’s 60 major cities voted in October 2000 for mayors from left-wing parties noted for advocacy, honesty and transparency. These reform administrations are introducing new hopes and expectations, […]
Economic Development, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance
January 2001, English
Responding to decades of poverty, poor housing, inadequate health care, rampant crime, deficient schools, poorly planned infrastructure, and inequitable access to services, citizens in about half of Brazil’s 60 major cities voted in October 2000 for mayors from left-wing parties noted for advocacy, honesty and transparency. These reform administrations are introducing new hopes and expectations, […]
Economic Development, Poverty and Inequality, Public Finance
Experiencia de contribución de mejoras en el Peru
Margarita Gamarra Huayapa
January 2001, Spanish
Working Papers
Property Tax, Value Capture
January 2001, Spanish
Working Papers
Property Tax, Value Capture
Land Lines, November 2000
Edited by Ann LeRoyer
November 2000, English
City and Regional Planning, Informal Settlements, Land Markets, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax, Urbanization
November 2000, English
City and Regional Planning, Informal Settlements, Land Markets, Land Value Taxation, Property Tax, Urbanization
Urban Spatial Segregation
Forces, Consequences, and Policy Responses
By Rosalind Greenstein, Francisco Sabatini, and Martim Smolka
November 2000, English
Spatial segregation is a feature of metropolises from San Diego to Boston, from Santiago to Cape Town, from Belfast to Bangalore. In some places the segregation is associated primarily with racial groups, in other places, ethnicity or religion, while in still other places, income status. In our experiences with the Americas, we find that international […]
City and Regional Planning, Informal Settlements, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
November 2000, English
Spatial segregation is a feature of metropolises from San Diego to Boston, from Santiago to Cape Town, from Belfast to Bangalore. In some places the segregation is associated primarily with racial groups, in other places, ethnicity or religion, while in still other places, income status. In our experiences with the Americas, we find that international […]
City and Regional Planning, Informal Settlements, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
Segregación espacial urbana
Fuerzas, consecuencias y respuestas normativas
Por Rosalind Greenstein, Francisco Sabatini, y Martim O. Smolka
November 2000, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 5 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. La segregación espacial es una característica de las metrópolis, de San Diego a Boston, de Santiago a Ciudad del Cabo, de Belfast a Bangalore. En algunos lugares está […]
City and Regional Planning, Informal Settlements, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
November 2000, Spanish
Una versión más actualizada de este artículo está disponible como parte del capítulo 5 del libro Perspectivas urbanas: Temas críticos en políticas de suelo de América Latina. La segregación espacial es una característica de las metrópolis, de San Diego a Boston, de Santiago a Ciudad del Cabo, de Belfast a Bangalore. En algunos lugares está […]
City and Regional Planning, Informal Settlements, Poverty and Inequality, Urbanization
Assessment Reform in Indiana
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Frank Kelly and Jeff Wuensch
November 2000, English
The property tax in Indiana has long generated considerable public policy debate, centering on the methods prescribed by the state to determine property values. Most states use some form of market value as the assessment standard, but Indiana relies on “true tax value.” Indiana law defines this as “the value determined under the rules of […]
Land Markets, Land Value Taxation, Local Government, Property Tax
November 2000, English
The property tax in Indiana has long generated considerable public policy debate, centering on the methods prescribed by the state to determine property values. Most states use some form of market value as the assessment standard, but Indiana relies on “true tax value.” Indiana law defines this as “the value determined under the rules of […]
Land Markets, Land Value Taxation, Local Government, Property Tax
Regional Planning in America
Updating Earlier Visions
Ethan Seltzer
November 2000, English
Seeking to reactivate discussion of regionalism in the twenty-first century, Armando Carbonell, senior fellow and director of the Lincoln Institute’s Program on Land as Common Property, and Robert Yaro, executive director of the Regional Plan Association (RPA), convened a roundtable in New York last April, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Planning […]
City and Regional Planning, Urbanization
November 2000, English
Seeking to reactivate discussion of regionalism in the twenty-first century, Armando Carbonell, senior fellow and director of the Lincoln Institute’s Program on Land as Common Property, and Robert Yaro, executive director of the Regional Plan Association (RPA), convened a roundtable in New York last April, in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Planning […]
City and Regional Planning, Urbanization
Land Value Taxation and Eco-taxation
Their Social and Economic Inter-relationship
Nathaniel Lichfield and Owen Connellan
October 2000, English
Working Papers
Environment, Land Conservation, Land Value Taxation
October 2000, English
Working Papers
Environment, Land Conservation, Land Value Taxation
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