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The Crossrail is a transformative transit investment that will traverse London. It was planned through a rigorous process that focused on supporting the region’s economic growth and reducing congestion by shifting travel patterns, connecting employment areas, and capturing the resulting increase in land values. How did they get there?
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This video features a lecture by Jimm Berry, Senior Vice President at Hatch Mott MacDonald. The Crossrail is a transformative transit investment that will traverse London. It was planned through a rigorous process that focused on supporting the region’s economic growth and reducing congestion by shifting travel patterns, connecting employment areas, and capturing the resulting increase in land values. How did they get there?
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Can and should municipalities borrow more? What is the role of public-private partnerships (P3s) in addressing the municipal infrastructure gap?
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Do we need to have local agencies, boards and commissions (ABCs)? What is the appropriate geographic boundary (local, regional, provincial, etc.) for a particular policy task? Who should sit on the board of the ABC and should they be appointed or elected?
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This volume examines the governing structure and finances of metropolitan areas in federal systems. Taking a comparative approach, each chapter examines two large metropolitan areas in a federal country, including Australia (South East Queensland and Perth); Brazil (Belo Horizonte and São Paulo); Canada (Toronto and Vancouver); Germany (Hamburg and Central Germany); India (Hyderabad and Mumbai); South Africa (Cape Town and Gauteng metropolitan region); Spain (Barcelona and Madrid); Switzerland (Geneva and Zurich); and the United States (Louisville and Los Angeles).
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Presentation delivered by Enid Slack and André Côté to the Toronto Urban Fellows Learning Session: A Foundation in Municipal Finance on June 20, 2013.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the Fourth IMF-Japan High-Level Tax Conference for Asian Countries in Tokyo, Japan on April 3, 2013.
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Presentation delivered by IMFG Director Enid Slack to the 8th Mass Appraisal Valuation Symposium in Durban, South Africa on June 13, 2013.
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