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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.

Papers presented at the International Workshop on "Urbanization, Land Use, Land Degradation and Environment", jointly organized by Pamukkale University, Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Organization and the Center for Science and Technology of the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries during 28th September-1st October 2009 in Denizil, Turkey

Land is one of the world's most emotionally resonant resources, and control over it is fundamental to almost all human activity. From the local level to the global, we are often in conflict over the ground beneath our feet. But because human relationships to land are so complex, it can be difficult to think them through in a unified way. This path-breaking book aims to change that by combining insights from multiple disciplines to develop a framework for understanding the geopolitics of land today.