This issue explores how, in recent years, the United Kingdom has imposed land-based taxes on the Crown’s properties in order to help fund local public services; the variability of types, and determinants of success, of land trusts in the United States; and an analysis of institutional and legal planning frameworks both here and in Europe.

This issue features articles on the use of payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs) in Boston, tools to help communities in the Intermountain West plan for climate change and increase community resilience, and bus rapid transit (BRT) in Latin American cities.

This issue explores the magnitude of unfunded local government pension costs across the U.S.; a creative approach to environmental conservation and management; and how national land policy in China has become a key driver of the Asian country’s rapid economic growth.

This issue highlights U.S. central cities’ fiscal recovery following the Great Recession; a new perspective on value capture mechanisms in Latin American nations; and scenario planning and adaptation tactics to combat the impacts of climate change.

This issue looks at preferential assessments as a taxation method for rural land in the U.S.; the recommended use of three-dimensional cadastres as a property data collection tool; and the intricacies of property tax reform in China.

This issue explores land readjustment as a strategy for urban development and post-disaster rebuilding; obstacles to economic growth in developing nations; and property rights in Latin America from the perspective of a Brazilian urban law professor.