Publicaciones

Mayo 1996, inglés

The mighty Mekong, tenth largest river in the world, faces conflicting pressures for developing its floodplains and harnessing its powerful flow, which spans 4200 kilometers from the Himalayas through China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam to the South China Sea. Turbulence characterizes the river’s upper portions, but the lower Mekong is more placid, and annual […]

Mayo 1996, inglés

If cynics know the price of everything but the value of nothing, then they may have something in common with contemporary American planners. Constrained by the courts, the planning fraternity sometimes appears to have spent the last decade rationalizing nexuses and quantifying costs without really addressing the social and environmental values that should underpin the […]

Marzo 1996, inglés

Marzo 1996, inglés

A proud outpost of America’s Industrial Revolution, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, survived the Great Flood of 1889, when a 40-mph wave swept the city into the Conemaugh River. Johnstown rebuilt itself into a dynamic city teeming with factories and steel mills. Yet what the flood couldn’t kill, a changing economy nearly has. In the space of a […]

Marzo 1996, inglés

Imagine two communities in the Rocky Mountain region in the late 1860s. One is located along the transcontinental railroad, the other is 100 miles to the south. Which community would come to dominate the region by the turn of the century? Counterintuitively, the latter community did. There, aggressive entrepreneurs and community leaders orchestrated the completion […]

Marzo 1996, inglés

In their new book, Land Use in America, copublished by the Lincoln Institute and Island Press, Henry L. Diamond and Patrick F. Noonan propose a 10-point agenda to help America’s communities accommodate future growth in more environmentally sound and fiscally responsible ways. Diamond is a partner in the law firm of Beveridge & Diamond in […]

Marzo 1996, inglés

Dr. Ronald L. Smith is retiring as president of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy after nearly ten years. Since his arrival in August 1986, he has dedicated his efforts to strengthening the administrative operations of the Institute, expanding its teaching and publications programs, and refining its research agenda. In 1990-91 he oversaw the Institute’s […]

Enero 1996, inglés