Land Policies and Their Outcomes: Proceedings of the 2006 Land Policy Conference

In June 2006 the Lincoln Institute held the first in a series of land policy conferences to address international trends and issues. The goals of this conference were to raise awareness of the importance of land policy in shaping international urban development and to explore research topics in urban economics and planning that might have significant policy implications. The chapters are based on the conference proceedings, papers, and commentaries of scholars and practitioners, and are divided into five themes: public actions and property prices; the importance of land value in today's economy; land and property taxation; urban development and revitalization; and new developments in land and housing markets. Issues And Themes / Gregory K. Ingram And Yu-hung Hong -- Public Actions And Property Prices -- Restricting Residential Construction / Edward L. Glaeser -- Regulation And Property Values In The United States : The High Cost Of Monopoly / John M. Quigley -- Commentary / Katherine A. Kiel -- The Efficiency And Equity Of Tiebout In The United States : Taxes, Services, And Property Values / Thomas J. Nechyba -- Commentary / Daphne A. Kenyon -- The Economics Of Conservation Easements / Andrew J. Plantinga -- Commentary / V. Kerry Smith -- The Importance Of Land Value In Today's Economy -- The Value Of Land In The United States : 1975-2005 / Karl E. Case -- Commentary / Stephen Malpezzi -- Urban Land Rents In The United States / David Barker -- Commentary / Robin Dubin -- Land And Property Taxation -- Land Value Taxation As A Method Of Financing Municipal Expenditures In U.s. Cities / Richard W. England -- Commentary / Robert M. Schwab -- Taxing Land And Property In Emerging Economies : Raising Revenue-- And More? / Richard M. Bird And Enid Slack -- Commentary / Miguel Urrutia -- Urban Development And Revitalization -- Asia's Urban Century : Emerging Trends / Rakesh Mohan -- The United Kindom's Experience In Revitalizing Inner Cities / Peter Hall -- Commentary / Jody Tableporter -- Hopeful Signs : U.s. Urban Revitalization In The Twenty-first Century / Eugénie L. Birch -- Commentary / William C. Apgar -- New Developments In Land And Housing Markets -- Community Land Trusts And Housing Affordability / Steven C. Bourassa -- Commentary / Stephen C. Sheppard -- Multiple-home Ownership And The Income Elasticity Of Housing Demand / Eric Belsky, Zhu Xiao Di, And Dan Mccue -- Commentary / Michael Carliner -- Brazil's Urban Land And Housing Markets : How Well Are They Working? / David E. Dowall -- Commentary / J. Vernon Henderson -- Contributors -- Index -- About The Lincoln Institute Of Land Policy. Edited By Gregory K. Ingram And Yu-hung Hong. This Book Presents The Main Contributions To A Lincoln Institute Conference, Land Policies For Urban Development, Held In Cambridge, Massachusetts, In June 2006.--pref. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Issues and themes / Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-hung Hong Public actions and property prices Restricting residential construction / Edward L. Glaeser Regulation and property values in the United States : the high cost of monopoly / John M. Quigley Commentary / Katherine A. Kiel The efficiency and equity of tiebout in the United States : taxes, services, and property values / Thomas J. Nechyba Commentary / Daphne A. Kenyon The economics of conservation easements / Andrew J. Plantinga Commentary / Kerry Smith The importance of land value in today's economy The value of land in the United States : 1975-2005 / Karl E. Case Commentary / Stephen Malpezzi Urban land rents in the United States / David Barker Commentary / Robin Dubin Land and property taxation Land value taxation as a method of financing municipal expenditures in U.S. cities / Richard W. England Commentary / Robert M. Schwab Taxing land and property in emerging economies : raising revenue . . . and more? / Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack Commentary / Miguel Urrutia Urban development and revitalization Asia's urban century : emerging trends / Rakesh Mohan The U.K.'s experience in revitalizing inner cities / Peter Hall Commentary / Jody Tableporter Hopeful signs : U.S. urban revitalization in the twenty-first century / Eugnie L. Birch Commentary / William C. Apgar New developments in land and housing markets Community land trusts and affordable housing / Steven C. Bourassa Commentary / Stephen C. Sheppard Multiple home ownership and the income elasticity of housing demand / Eric Belsky, Xiao di Zhu, and Dan McCue Commentary / Michael Carliner Brazil's urban land and housing markets : how well are they working? / David E. Dowall Commentary / J. Vernon Henderson Contributors Index About the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Land Policies and Their Outcomes presents the main contributions to a Lincoln Institute conference,'Land Policies for Urban Development,'held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in June 2006. The conference was designed to review the current research on the impacts of land policy on housing prices and affordability, real estate investment decisions, local public finance, and urban development patterns. The scholarly work on these issues is normally published in academic journals or presented at conferences whose audiences represent a particular discipline. One goal of this Institute conference was to promote cross-disciplinary dialogue on land policy issues among urban economists, public finance experts, urban and regional planners, and policy makers. Another goal of the conference was to draw on the global experience with these issues from both industrialized and developing countries.