This issue explores the relationships between economic development, infrastructure, and land taxation in the U.S.; informal settlements, and overall land and housing challenges, in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro; and acquisition and redevelopment strategies for transforming vacant and abandoned properties.

This issue looks at strategies to stabilize property taxes in volatile U.S. real estate markets; the fundamentals and policy implications of North America’s “megapolitan” (large metropolitan) areas; the evolution of housing finance policy in Chile; and the tax reform possibilities of China’s inadequate property tax system.

This issue explores spatial development patterns in the context of the North American megapolis; current trends of U.S. conservation easements and possibilties for their reinvention; and the role of community land trusts in providing and sustaining affordable housing.

This issue features a summary declaration of core policy issues surrounding land management and land markets in Latin America; land value in the context of large urban Latin American projects; the pivotal role of universities as anchor institutions and developers in cities and towns across the world; and the taxation system of publicly-owned land in China.

This issue looks at land use and design innovations in private U.S. communities; Harvard Design School Loeb Fellows’ observations of land use and streetscapes in Chinese cities; U.S. politicians’ perspectives on land taxation; and urban spatial patterns and infrastructure in Beijing.

This issue explores farmland preservation in China; the inadequacies and strengths of land regularization and upgrading programs in Latin America; balancing public values and fiduciary responsibilities when managing state trust land; and principles and tools for regional collaboration in the U.S.