Land Lines Magazine

This issue offers a recap of a West Coast regional forum intended to address issues of housing affordability and traffic congestion; and looks at the implementation of waterfront redevelopment strategies in Cuba and the Netherlands, mass valuation methods for land taxation in traditional economies, and the successes and problems of cadastre systems used in Colombia and elsewhere in Latin America.

This issue features the effects of government-run land acquisition on China’s economic future; land-value taxation as a method of promoting smart growth in the U.S.; the need for regional, landscape-scale conservation strategies and efforts; and the roles of community-based organizations (CBOs) in the redevelopment of Brownfields.