The property tax land use and land use regulation 1. Taxes on buildings and land in a dynamic model of real estate markets 2. The effect of tax increment financing on land use 3. Preferential assessment : impacts and alternatives 4. The influence of local fiscal structure and growth control choices on big box urban sprawl in the American west 5. Is zoning a substitute for or a complement to factor taxes 6. Taxes versus regulation : the welfare impacts of policies for containing urban sprawl 7. Land use regulations and the property tax : cost benefit analyses 8. The rise of the private neighbourhood association : a constitutional revolution in local government 9. The rise of private neighbourhood associations : revolution or evolution 10. Frontage tax and the optimally compact city Dick Netzer a leading public finance economist specializing in state and local issues and urban government brings together in this comprehensive volume essays by top scholars connecting the property tax with land use. They explore the idea that the property tax is used as a partial substitute for land use regulation and other policies designed to affect how land is utilized. Like many economists the contributors see some type of property taxation as the more efficient means of helping to shape land use. Some of the essays analyze a conventional property tax while others consider radically different systems of property taxation