Search results

Governments often used the promise of land as a means to implement policy. Whether the land was in the form of a large grant to a successful explorer, or in the offer of a homestead on the frontier, the motive for such grants was seldom entirely altruistic. Most grants contained stipulations for settlement and cultivation because a growing population was necessary for economic development. Rulers of Florida also offered land grants to encourage a particular religion, to protect shipping, or to establish protection against Indian attacks. When Florida became part of the United States, large sections of the territory were already claimed under various land grants made by Spain or Great Britain. Succeeding United States governments continued to grant land to individuals or companies to stimulate internal improvements or to increase population. In the hands of developers, land grants usually had the desired effect, but in the hands of speculators they tended to decrease population growth. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of land grants on population growth in Orange County, Florida.

Cover -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- The Importance of Municipal Finance -- Chapter 1: Municipal Revenue Options in a Time of Financial Crisis -- Chapter 2: Financing Cities -- Intergovernmental Transfers and Municipal Fiscal Structures -- Chapter 3: Intergovernmental Transfers to Local Governments -- Chapter 4: Trends in Local Government Revenues: The Old, the New, and the Future -- Chapter 5: Creative Designs of the Patchwork Quilt of Municipal Finance -- Broad-Based Local Taxes and Development Impact Fees -- Chapter 6: The Contribution of Local Sales and Income Taxes to Fiscal Autonomy -- Chapter 7: The Effects of Development Impact Fees on Local Fiscal Conditions -- Chapter 8: A New Financial Instrument of Value Capture in São Paulo -- Financing Submunicipal Services -- Chapter 9: Governance Structures and Financial Authority in Submunicipal Districts: Implications for Fiscal Performance -- Chapter 10: Does a Rising Tide Compensate for the Secession of the Successful? -- Chapter 11: Does TIF Make It More Difficult to Manage Municipal Budgets? -- Chapter 12: Homeowners Associations and Their Impact on the Local Public Budget -- Capital Financing of Infrastructure -- Chapter 13: Complex Debt for Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 14: Prospects for Private Infrastructure in the United States: The Case of Toll Roads -- Comparisons of the Property Tax with Other Revenue Instruments -- Chapter 15: An Analysis of Alternative Revenue Sources for Local Governments -- Chapter 16: The Best of Times or the Worst of Times? How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Index -- ABOUT THE LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY.

This item is part of the Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements (PRISM) digital collection, a collaborative initiative between Florida Atlantic University and University of Central Florida in the Publication of Archival, Library & Museum Materials (PALMM).

According to the author, decollectivization and the division of land have raised questions about whether a landed basis might reappear for a contemporary reformulation of patriliny in the Chinese countryside. She addresses these questions by examining the processes through which formerly collective land has been divided and partially brought together again in informal, nameless co-operative groupings with an apparent patrilineal tinge in the village Huali in north-western Shandong province. (DÜI-Sen)

Decollectivization and the division of land have raised questions about whether a landed basis might reappear for a contemporary reformulation of patriliny in the Chinese countryside. This article addresses these questions by examining the processes through which formerly collective land has been divided and partially brought together again in informal, nameless co-operative groupings with an apparent patrilineal tinge.

SMALL STATES MUST IMPLEMENT OR RETAIN STRONG MEASURES TO PREVENT CONTROL OF THEIR LANDS FROM FALLING INTO FOREIGN HANDS, REGARDLESS OF THEIR NEED FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT. ONE POPULAR FORM OF RESTRICTION IS TO ALLOW FOREIGNERS TO LEASE, BUT NOT TO OWN, LAND.