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Terra incognita : vacant land and urban strategies / Ann O'M. Bowman and Michael A. Pagano.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowman, Ann O'M., 1948-
- Series:
- American governance and public policy
- American governance and public policy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vacant lands--Government policy--United States.
- Vacant lands.
- Vacant lands--Government policy--United States--Case studies.
- Vacant lands--Government policy.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, [2004]
- Contents:
- 1 The Different Contexts of Vacant Urban Land 1
- Vacant Land: Negative and Positive
- Defining Vacant Land
- Describing Vacant Land in U.S. Cities
- Context Matters: Vacant Land in Three Metropolitan Areas
- 2 Cities and Vacant Land: Data and a Model 23
- The Amount of Vacant Land in U.S. Cities
- Terra Incognita: Understanding City Actions
- The Three Imperatives and Vacant Land
- 3 City Policymaking: Exploring the Land-Tax Dynamic 49
- Constraints and Opportunities of General Taxing Authority
- The Strategic Behavior of Property Tax Cities
- The Strategic Behavior of Sales Tax Cities
- The Strategic Behavior of Income Tax Cities
- Reflections on the Land-Tax Dynamic
- 4 The Social Value of Vacant Land 89
- Mental Maps
- Infilling as a Social Strategy
- Vacant Land as Open Space
- 5 The Development Potential of Vacant Land 125
- Economic Development in Metropolitan Areas
- Capturing Land
- Recapturing and Recycling Vacant Land
- Constraining Land Use
- 6 Strategic Uses of Vacant Land 163
- A Spatial Model of Vacant Land
- Putting Vacant Land to Use
- Approaches to Reusing Vacant Land
- Strategic Thinking and Vacant Land
- Appendix B Demographic, Economic, and Political Data for the Three Site-Visit Metropolitan Areas 207
- Appendix C Data on Vacant Land and Abandoned Structures from the Survey and Data on Population and Area from the Census 211.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-225) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1589010078
- OCLC:
- 53006862
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