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The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat
III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding
of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future. At
the heart of this new vision stand a myriad of legal challenges -
and opportunities - that must be confronted for the world to make
good on the NUA's promise. In response, this book, which
complements and expands on the editors' previous volumes on urban
law in this series, offers a constructive and critical evaluation
of the legal dimensions of the NUA. As the volume's authors make
clear, from natural disasters and resulting urban migration in
Honshu and Tacloban, to innovative collaborative governance in
Barcelona and Turin, to accessibility of public space for informal
workers in New Delhi and Accra, and power scales among Brazil's
metropolitan regions, there is a deep urgency for thoughtful
research to understand how law can be harnessed to advance the
NUA's global mission of sustainable urbanism. It thus creates a
provocative and academic dialogue about the legal effects of the
NUA, which will be of interest to academics and researchers with an
interest in urban studies.
The growing field of urban law demands a collaborative scholarly
focus on comparative and global perspectives. This volume offers
diverse insights into urban law, with emerging theories and
analyses of topics ranging from criminal reform and urban housing,
to social and economic inequality and financial crises, and
democratization and freedom for individual identity and space.
Particularly now, social, economic, and cultural issues must be
closely examined in conjunction with the rule of law not only to
address inadequate access to basic services, but also to construct
long-term plans for our cities and our world-a bright, safe future.
With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens, increasing
foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling wages, and
widespread homelessness, building affordable housing is one of our
most pressing social policy problems. Affordable Housing and
Public-Private Partnerships focuses attention on this critical
need, as leading experts on affordable housing law and policy come
together to address key issues of concern and to suggest
appropriate responses for future action. Focusing in particular on
how best to understand and implement the joint work of public and
private actors in housing, this book considers the real estate
aspects of affordable housing law and policy, access to housing,
housing finance and affordability, land use, housing regulation and
housing issues in a post-Katrina context. Filling a critical gap in
the scholarly literature available, this book will be of particular
interest to policy-makers, academics, lawyers and students of
housing, land use, real estate, property, community development and
urban planning
With distressing statistics about rising cost burdens, increasing
foreclosure rates, rising unemployment, falling wages, and
widespread homelessness, building affordable housing is one of our
most pressing social policy problems. Affordable Housing and
Public-Private Partnerships focuses attention on this critical
need, as leading experts on affordable housing law and policy come
together to address key issues of concern and to suggest
appropriate responses for future action. Focusing in particular on
how best to understand and implement the joint work of public and
private actors in housing, this book considers the real estate
aspects of affordable housing law and policy, access to housing,
housing finance and affordability, land use, housing regulation and
housing issues in a post-Katrina context. Filling a critical gap in
the scholarly literature available, this book will be of particular
interest to policy-makers, academics, lawyers and students of
housing, land use, real estate, property, community development and
urban planning
The growing field of urban law demands a collaborative scholarly
focus on comparative and global perspectives. This volume offers
diverse insights into urban law, with emerging theories and
analyses of topics ranging from criminal reform and urban housing,
to social and economic inequality and financial crises, and
democratization and freedom for individual identity and space.
Particularly now, social, economic, and cultural issues must be
closely examined in conjunction with the rule of law not only to
address inadequate access to basic services, but also to construct
long-term plans for our cities and our world-a bright, safe future.
The New Urban Agenda (NUA), adopted in 2016 at the United Nations
Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat
III) in Quito, Ecuador, represents a globally shared understanding
of the vital link between urbanization and a sustainable future. At
the heart of this new vision stand a myriad of legal challenges -
and opportunities - that must be confronted for the world to make
good on the NUA's promise. In response, this book, which
complements and expands on the editors' previous volumes on urban
law in this series, offers a constructive and critical evaluation
of the legal dimensions of the NUA. As the volume's authors make
clear, from natural disasters and resulting urban migration in
Honshu and Tacloban, to innovative collaborative governance in
Barcelona and Turin, to accessibility of public space for informal
workers in New Delhi and Accra, and power scales among Brazil's
metropolitan regions, there is a deep urgency for thoughtful
research to understand how law can be harnessed to advance the
NUA's global mission of sustainable urbanism. It thus creates a
provocative and academic dialogue about the legal effects of the
NUA, which will be of interest to academics and researchers with an
interest in urban studies.
The Sixth Edition of Tax Procedure and Tax Fraud in a Nutshell is
designed to acquaint students with the theoretical and practical
aspects of tax practice, from administrative or civil actions
involving the Internal Revenue Service to criminal prosecutions
brought by the Department of Justice. Specific coverage includes
IRS and treasury rulemaking; IRS confidentiality and disclosure;
ethical issues of tax practice; civil audits and administrative
appeals; assessment issues; the collection process; civil and
criminal penalties; statutes of limitations; civil litigation
considerations in the various tax forums; civil and criminal IRS
investigations; and tax crimes and prosecution.
This Handbook grapples conceptually and practically with what the
sharing economy - which includes entities ranging from large
for-profit firms like Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, Taskrabbit, and Upwork to
smaller, non-profit collaborative initiatives - means for law, and
how law, in turn, is shaping critical aspects of the sharing
economy. Featuring a diverse set of contributors from many academic
disciplines and countries, the book compiles the most important,
up-to-date research on the regulation of the sharing economy. The
first part surveys the nature of the sharing economy, explores the
central challenge of balancing innovation and regulatory concerns,
and examines the institutions confronting these regulatory
challenges, and the second part turns to a series of specific
regulatory domains, including labor and employment law, consumer
protection, tax, and civil rights. This groundbreaking work should
be read by anyone interested in the dynamic relationship between
law and the sharing economy.
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