Topic: Public Finance

Capital Planning Conference for New England Municipal Officials

November 30, 2018 | 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Stow, MA United States

Free, offered in English

The Collins Center and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy have organized this conference as part of the Lincoln Institute’s Critical Issues for the Fiscal Health of New England Cities and Towns series in order to provide New England municipal officials with highly practical capital planning advice, ideas, best practices, and tools that they can put to use in their own municipalities.

The morning will include two sessions: (1) capital planning, with concurrent panels for officials from municipalities with different levels of knowledge and practice (ranging from those that have no capital plan to those that have a sophisticated capital plan); and (2) financing capital spending, with one panel for those looking for basic finance strategies and another for those interested in advanced financing strategies.

The afternoon will provide a variety of special topics, including communicating with the public about capital needs and expenditures, capital planning and climate change preparedness, and alternative strategies for funding capital expenditures.

 

 

This is an invitation only event.


Details

Date
November 30, 2018
Time
8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Registration Period
September 19, 2018 - November 1, 2018
Location
Massachusetts Firefighting Academy
Mass Fire Services
1 State Road
Stow, MA United States
Language
English
Registration Fee
Free
Cost
Free
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Keywords

Municipal Fiscal Health, Public Finance

Course

Gestión del Suelo en Grandes Proyectos Urbanos

October 8, 2018 - November 21, 2018

Online

Free, offered in Spanish


Las intervenciones urbanas de gran envergadura, denominadas usualmente Grandes Proyectos Urbanos (GPU), combinan una escala espacial importante con la complejidad de su gestión, y constituyen uno de los rasgos dominantes actuales de las ciudades de América Latina. El componente suelo hace parte esencial en la estructura de estos proyectos, puesto que éstos pueden impulsar cambios urbanos inmediatos capaces de afectar los valores de los terrenos. La valorización del suelo generada por la implementación de este tipo de proyectos representa un potencial de autofinanciamiento y viabilidad económica, a partir de la movilización de plusvalías para beneficio público.

Los GPU incluyen intervenciones dirigidas a la recuperación de áreas urbanas deterioradas o abandonadas (incluyendo centros históricos), desarrollo de proyectos de expansión urbana, consolidación de centralidades, la utilización de tierras públicas en desuso (antiguos aeropuertos o puertos, zonas industriales, etc.) o la ejecución de proyectos de mejoramiento habitacional de gran dimensión.

Esta forma de hacer ciudad plantea una serie de desafíos: la articulación del plan de ordenamiento territorial con el proyecto, la captación de las plusvalías generadas por los proyectos, el rol de la institucionalidad pública y del sector privado, la conformación de un equipo gestor, la participación ciudadana, su contribución a la integración y cohesión social en la ciudad, la utilización del marco normativo urbanístico general o la adopción de marcos específicos, y su contribución a la sostenibilidad urbana, entre otros.

 

Requisitos previos: Manejo de conceptos de formación de precios del suelo y su relación con la planificación urbana.

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Details

Date
October 8, 2018 - November 21, 2018
Application Period
August 17, 2018 - September 5, 2018
Selection Notification Date
September 26, 2018 at 6:00 PM
Location
Online
Language
Spanish
Cost
Free
Registration Fee
Free
Educational Credit Type
Lincoln Institute certificate

Keywords

Assessment, Brownfields, BRT, Bus Rapid Transit, Business Improvement Districts, Development, Economic Development, Economics, Eminent Domain, Environment, Environmental Management, GIS, Housing, Inequality, Infrastructure, Land Banking, Land Market Monitoring, Land Market Regulation, Land Monitoring, Land Speculation, Land Use, Land Use Planning, Land Value, Legal Issues, Local Government, Open Space, Planning, Pollution, Poverty, Public Policy, Reuse of Urban Land, Segregation, Slum, Smart Growth, Stakeholders, Suburban, Sustainable Development, Transport Oriented Development, Urban, Urban Design, Urban Development, Urban Revitalization, Urban Sprawl, Urban Upgrading and Regularization, Urbanism, Value Capture, Zoning

Atlas of Urban Expansion

The Atlas of Urban Expansion is an open-source online resource with maps, satellite images, and data on spatial changes in cities around the world, created in partnership by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, UN-Habitat, and New York University.

The Atlas of Urban Expansion features a global sample of 200 cities, representing the universe of all 4,231 cities and metropolitan areas that had 100,000 people or more in 2010. The aim is to provide a scientific understanding of how the world’s cities are growing, and to measure performance and identify trends in the implementation of the New Urban Agenda following the Habitat III global cities summit held in Quito, Ecuador in October 2016.

Massive urbanization, accompanied by the rapid expansion of cities and metropolitan regions and the sprawling growth of megacities the world over, is one of the most important transformations of our planet. Much of this explosive growth has been unplanned. Cities in developing countries have been unprepared for absorbing the many millions of the rural poor that are still crowding into informal settlements. These cities are set to double their urban population in the next thirty years, and triple the land area they occupy. From 1990 and 2015, the area occupied by cities in less developed countries increased by a factor of 3.5; if that rate continues, the total amount of land taken over by urban land use would be equivalent to the entire country of India.

The Atlas of Urban Expansion provides the geographic and quantitative dimensions of urban expansion and its key attributes in cities the world over. The data and images are available for free downloading, for scholars, public officials, planners, those engaged in international development, and concerned citizens. The empirical data and quantitative dimensions of past, present, and future urban expansion in cities around the world are critical for making minimal preparations for the massive urban growth expected in the coming decades.

Related publications include the Atlas of Urban Expansion 2016 Volume I and Volume IIPlanet of Cities (2012); Atlas of Urban Expansion (2012); and the Policy Focus Report Making Room for a Planet of Cities (2011).

Related Publications

Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition
Shlomo Angel, Alejandro Blei, Jason Parent, Patrick Lamson-Hall, and Nicolás Galarza Sánchez, with Daniel L. Civco, Rachel Qian Lei, and Kevin Thom

Other Publications

City and Regional Planning

Atlas of Urban Expansion—2016 Edition
Shlomo Angel, Patrick Lamson-Hall, Manuel Madrid, Alejandro Blei. and Jason Parent, with Nicolás Galarza Sánchez and Kevin Thom

Other Publications

City and Regional Planning

Making Room for a Planet of Cities
Shlomo Angel, with Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, and Alejandro M. Blei

Policy Focus Reports

Book cover for Atlas of Urban Expansion
Atlas of Urban Expansion
Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent, Daniel L. Civco, and Alejandro M. Blei

Book

City and Regional Planning

Book cover for Planet of Cities
Planet of Cities
Shlomo Angel

Book

Urbanization

Working Paper Cover
A Planet of Cities
Shlomo Angel, Jason Parent, Daniel Civco, Alexander Blei, and David Potere

Working Papers

Urbanization