Research Catalog

Title

Terra incognita : vacant land and urban strategies / Ann O'M. Bowman and Michael A. Pagano.

Author

Bowman, Ann O'M., 1948-

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Pagano, Michael A.

Description

xv, 232 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Series Statement

American governance and public policy series

Uniform Title

American governance and public policy

Subject

• Vacant lands > Government policy > United States
• Vacant lands > Government policy > United States > Case studies

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [217]-225) and index.

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.

ISBN

1589010078 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003019870

OCLC

53006862

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library