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Regeneration in London l Conservation Incentives l Cleveland Film l Humane Metropolis l Fellowships l Program Calendar OCTOBER 2006 LandLINCO L N I NSTITUTE Lines OF LAND PO L ICY Land Lines OCTOBER 2006 • VOLUME 8, NUMBER 4 EDITOR ASSISTANT EDITOR CONTENTS Ann LeRoyer Emily McKeigue PRESIDENT & CEO DESIGN & PRODUCTION Gregory K. Ingram David Gerratt & Amanda Wait www.NonprofitDesign.com CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD Kathryn J. Lincoln The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a nonprofit educational institution established in 1974 to study and teach land policy and taxation. By supporting multidisciplinary educational, research, and publica- tions programs, the Institute brings together diverse viewpoints to expand the body of useful knowledge in four departments—valuation and taxation; plan- PAGE 2 PAGE 8 ning and urban form; economic and community development; and international studies. Our goal is to make that knowledge comprehensible and accessible to citizens, policy makers, and scholars ◗ FEATURES in the United States and throughout the world. The Lincoln Institute is an equal opportunity institution. 2 London’s Large-scale regeneration Projects offer Land Lines is published quarterly in January, April, July, Community Benefits and October to report on Lincoln Institute–sponsored R ANDY GRAgg education programs, research, publications, and other projects. Models of urban regeneration such as the Tate Modern and Canary Wharf lured the 2006 Loeb Fellows from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design to London for For More Information their annual study trip, cosponsored by the Lincoln Institute, to get a first-hand look at the The Lincoln Institute Web site (www.lincolninst.edu) lessons to be learned from one of the world’s most rapidly redeveloping cities. provides a variety of features that make it easy for users to quickly obtain information on land and tax policy issues and on specific education programs, 8 Conservation Incentives in america’s Heartland research, and publications. The e-commerce function JA M E S N. LEV I TT permits users to order publications and multimedia products and to register for courses. Inspired by the work of Aldo Leopold, conservation leaders explore three types of incentive You can create your own “My Profile” to download programs to achieve land conservation in an economically efficient, measurably effective, current and past issues of Land Lines, nearly 400 and reasonably equitable manner: tax incentives, market-based incentives, and fiscal Working Papers, and other materials posted on the (or budgetary) incentives. Web site. After you have completed your profile, you can “Log In” at any time by entering only your username and password. To create a profile, go to http://www.lincolninst.edu/login/createprofile.asp. ◗ D E P ARTMENTS Copyright © 2006 1 Report from the President Lincoln Institute of Land Policy 113 Brattle Street 12 Faculty Profile: Jeffrey sundberg Cambridge, MA 02138-3400 USA Tel: 617-661-3016 or 1-800-526-3873 14 Making sense of Place Film series: Fax: 617-661-7235 or 1-800-526-3944 Cleveland: Confronting Decline in an American City E-mail: [email protected] (editorial content) [email protected] (information services) 15 New Copublished Book: Web: www.lincolninst.edu The Humane Metropolis: People and Nature in the 21st-Century City 16 Research and Graduate student Fellows 19 Program Calendar Portland, Oregon. © Alex MacLean/ Landslides Aerial Photography PRINTED ON RECYCLED papER USING SOY-BASED INKS OCTOBER 2006 • Land Lines • LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY ReportFrom from the President the President Changes in Institute Programs and Activities The content of the Institute’s work program ment, architecture, and urban design as a has evolved significantly over the past two reporter for the Boston Globe from 1989 to years, and its annual activities have increased 2005. For the past year, he was Smart by about half since 2004. Reflecting this Growth Education Director at the Massachu- evolution and growth, the Institute’s programs setts Office ofC ommonwealth Development. and staffing are also changing. While a visiting scholar at the Harvard Grad- The former Department of Planning and uate School of Design (GSD), he wrote the Development has been replaced by two new book This Land: The Battle over Sprawl and departments. The Department of Planning the Future of America (Johns Hopkins Univer- and Urban Form, headed by Armando Car- Gregory K. Ingram sity Press, 2006) on the forces influencing bonell, addresses planning and its relation urban growth in the United States. Anthony to the form of the built environment with a focus on three became familiar with the Institute as a Loeb Fellow at the themes: spatial externalities and multijurisdictional gover- GSD in 2000 and has since contributed to the Institute’s nance issues; the interplay of public and private interests annual journalists program and authored an Institute work- in the use of land; and land policy, land conservation, and ing paper on density. A graduate of Middlebury College the environment. The Department of Economic and Commu- and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, nity Development, headed by Rosalind Greenstein, connects Anthony will continue to do research and writing. planning to development and fiscal issues with a focus on The Institute also has been adapting its training programs four themes: the city, land, and the university; neighborhood to take advantage of the capabilities of the Internet. planning and development; fiscal dimensions of planning; Several of the Institute’s basic courses have been made and urban economics and revitalization. available for distance education and Internet-based instruc- The Department of Valuation and Taxation, headed by tion. These typically involve videotaped presentations that Joan Youngman, continues its focus on land taxation, prop- can be downloaded from the Internet or a CD. Examples in- erty taxation, and the valuation process within an expanded clude the introductory courses on conservation easements, program. The main activities of the Department of Interna- mediation of land use disputes, and planning fundamen- tional Studies continue to be its programs in Latin America tals. This shift has freed up resources for new classroom and in China focusing on land and tax policy issues. Other courses, such as one based on the book The Humane international activities include work in Eastern Europe on Metropolis, published this fall by University of Massachu- administration of market value based property taxation, in setts Press in association with the Institute. South Africa on property taxation and land markets, and in The Latin American Program has developed several In- Taiwan on infrastructure development and planning. ternet-based courses offered live with real-time instructor This year the Institute established a new position, Man- feedback on the students’ work. These courses on urban ager of Public Affairs, and Anthony Flint took up this work in land policy and property taxation topics are presented in late July. He will be responsible for disseminating informa- Spanish and Portuguese to participants in Latin America. tion about the Institute’s products, findings, and activities, Finally, the Institute will soon launch a program of particularly with the media and through the Internet. He will evaluations of land policy programs in the United States. develop the Institute’s Web site as an outreach tool, writing One of the first of these will assess the performance of regular columns, making the site more interactive, and smart growth policies that have been applied to different strengthening its capacity as a key Internet portal for those degrees in many states. This work is part of a new Institute interested in land policy. initiative to improve our knowledge of what works and why Anthony covered transportation, planning and develop- in land policy. OCTOBERO CTOBER 2006 • Land Lines • LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY London’s Large-scale Regeneration Projects Offer Community Benefits Randy Gragg “We’ve had impacts,” says donald Hyslop, head of education for the tate and coordinator The Tate Modern he sound of electricity hums deep inside of its community initiatives. “We attract 4 million Collection, the tate modern, the power plant turned visitors a year, and 12 million now move between housing modern art sanctuary on the south bank of Lon- the tate and the London eye. the question for and contemporary don’s River Thames. Despite the 4 million us became, ‘How do we spread that wealth?’” art, is connected Tvisitors per year now streaming inside since the gal- Such models of urban regeneration lured the to central London by the Millennium leries opened in 2000, the switching plant is still 2006 Loeb Fellows from Harvard university’s Bridge over the generating 2 megawatts of power for its neighbor- Graduate school of design to London for their River Thames. hood, making the tate one of the most unusual annual study trip abroad, cosponsored by the Lin- (L) Randy Gragg (R) Etty Padmodipoetro mixed-use urban redevelopments ever concocted. coln Institute. aided by Jody tableporter’s connec- But an even more far-reaching hum is rever- tions as the former director of regeneration for berating all around the tate—that of regenera- London mayor Ken Livingston, the group gained tion. Connected to central London by the arching a first-hand look at the leaps, stumbles, and lessons spine of Lord norman Foster’s millennium Bridge to be learned from one of the world’s most rapidly and further magnetized by the whirling mega-folly redeveloping cities. of the London eye Ferris wheel nearby, the tate “London has proven the relationship between has catalyzed well over $200 million worth of transportation planning and economic growth,” other redevelopments to the area. yet, even as it observed Luis Siqueiros, a planner who has worked joins other high-end arts institutions in the “Bilbao in Juarez/El Paso, Guadalajara, and other effect” of high art sparking higher-end gentrifi- Mexican cities.

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