Publicações

Julho 1997, inglês

In the context of entirely new fiscal policies and new approaches to property rights in central and eastern Europe over the past decade, taxes on land and buildings have taken on significant new roles—politically as adjuncts to privatization, restitution and decentralization, and fiscally as revenue-raising tools for local governments. The Lincoln Institute is particularly interested […]

Maio 1997, inglês

Maio 1997, inglês

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 […]

Maio 1997, inglês

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 […]

Maio 1997, inglês

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 […]

Março 1997, inglês