This report describes a fiscal impact study done for the City of San Jose, California, in 2003-2004, a time when the city was reeling from fiscal and economic pressures caused by the dot-com bust. With residential land prices rising due to low interest rates and industrial land declining in...

The eco-city rejects the idea of waste, instead seeking to transform it into beneficial uses within the city. In so doing, it seeks to reduce inputs of water and energy from afar. This concept is behind efforts to decentralize the production of energy and food and to create more local 'green'...

This paper uses employment and output in high-tech industries, venture capital funding, and the number of dot-com firms per 1000 private workers, at the metropolitan level, to identify their contribution to differences in housing market outcomes. Housing prices in New Economy markets are found...