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Effects of Land and Housing Policies on Market Performance
May 1997, English
Growing recognition of the economic and social importance of land, housing and real property markets is focusing attention on the need for good policies and good data to monitor the performance of these markets and their effects on the international economy. Much of the impetus for addressing these issues came with the United Nations General […]
May 1997, English
Growing recognition of the economic and social importance of land, housing and real property markets is focusing attention on the need for good policies and good data to monitor the performance of these markets and their effects on the international economy. Much of the impetus for addressing these issues came with the United Nations General […]
More on Urban Commons
May 1997, English
The March 1997 Land Lines article on “Urban Land as Common Property” omitted a key reference to geographer Rutherford H. Platt’s co-edited book, The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994; also see July 1994 Land Lines ). Platt pioneered the idea of seeing abandoned or neglected urban open spaces […]
May 1997, English
The March 1997 Land Lines article on “Urban Land as Common Property” omitted a key reference to geographer Rutherford H. Platt’s co-edited book, The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994; also see July 1994 Land Lines ). Platt pioneered the idea of seeing abandoned or neglected urban open spaces […]
Legality and Stability in Land and Housing Markets
May 1997, English
Land and housing markets, and any other market for that matter, can be approached as arenas in which persons exchange rights to assets subject to constitutional rules, statutory and common law rules, and administrative rules and procedures. The value of land is often believed to be determined by expectations about what land uses will be […]
May 1997, English
Land and housing markets, and any other market for that matter, can be approached as arenas in which persons exchange rights to assets subject to constitutional rules, statutory and common law rules, and administrative rules and procedures. The value of land is often believed to be determined by expectations about what land uses will be […]
Risks and Rewards of Brownfield Redevelopment
April 1997, English
April 1997, English
Land Lines, March 1997
March 1997, English
March 1997, English
Urban Land as Common Property
March 1997, English
In recent years, politicians, lobbyists and voters in the United States have often seemed polarized—or paralyzed—over where to draw the line between private and public rights in land. Common property, defined as group- or community-owned private property, straddles that line. Most recognized common property is in natural resources, and most recognized commoners are rural people […]
March 1997, English
In recent years, politicians, lobbyists and voters in the United States have often seemed polarized—or paralyzed—over where to draw the line between private and public rights in land. Common property, defined as group- or community-owned private property, straddles that line. Most recognized common property is in natural resources, and most recognized commoners are rural people […]
Land Lines, January 1997
January 1997, English
January 1997, English
Partnerships Protect Watersheds
The Case of the New Haven Water Company
January 1997, English
Water companies and the communities they serve have been grappling for years with complex issues of water treatment and provision, watershed management, public finance and control over regional land use decisionmaking. The federal Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 prompted water providers across America to face a dilemma: “to filter or not to filter.” Some […]
January 1997, English
Water companies and the communities they serve have been grappling for years with complex issues of water treatment and provision, watershed management, public finance and control over regional land use decisionmaking. The federal Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 prompted water providers across America to face a dilemma: “to filter or not to filter.” Some […]
