Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

I read a quick article from, of course, my phone is not going to want to unlock.

from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, and they were talking about, even though the water is evaporated because of evaporative cooling, how it works, evaporative cooling literally as water evaporates off, it cools that surface, right? That water evaporates, but minerals or other, like, I don't want to say contaminants, but other things are not water, and that water built up.

So if you release that water back off, you're kind of like, not you're losing water, but you're not able to dump safely that super concentrated water off.

Like whatever was in that water right now, highly concentrated because it was evaporated, which goes into the pollution point.

And that CLTs are one solution to addressing this wider systemic issue.

As I've been doing research Not only within Detroit, but there was a Lincoln Land policy or Lincoln Land Institute study they released last year.

They did a survey of about 115 CLTs throughout the United States.

To date, there's over 300 that are formally operating as a CLT.

As for cities...

I'm not an urban planner, but I looked at this study by the Lincoln Land Institute that said between 2019 and now, new commercial leases are down to one third of what they were pre-COVID levels.

And commercial real estate value in cities has dropped between 20 and 45 percent.

So that translates into less tax revenue, diminished tax revenue for the urban center, which is definitely going to kick into or cause reductions in services like sanitation, policing, all of these different things, public transport.

And also we want to in the, you know, buying land in the middle of nowhere aspect of things.

So the Lincoln Land Institute has done studies and they have found as a new development comes into an area, it causes a surrounding value of land to increase in value.

within a three mile radius.

So we wanna make sure that there's existing developments, infrastructure and new developments coming in within a three mile radius before we would ever consider a individual parcel of land.

Annapolis, by city ordinance, has attempted to nullify the Fifteenth Amendment.

The Democratic platform in Missouri says, quote, The Democratic Party, when it came into power in 1871, took over the Lincoln Institute and made it a normal school for the higher education of the Negro teachers, and it has always made liberal appropriations for that purpose and for the education of the Negro school children of the state.

It never has and will not discriminate against the Negro, either by criminal laws or on the question of their rights of franchise, and it deplores the action of the present chief executive of this state in seeking to make political capital by creating race antagonism, end quote.

R.S. Rutledge so resents this plank that he has withdrawn from the race for nomination as United States Senator.

I'm your host for this episode, Timmy Collegio.

Today, I'm excited to be speaking with Billy Fleming, author of the book, Building Post-Carbon Futures, Land Justice and Energy Transitions, recently published this year by the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

The book tackles big questions, like what would a post-carbon future look like? What would it take to build and maintain a more just, regenerative world? How would it feel to live and to thrive in that world? It does so by guiding readers through exemplary works of innovative projects around the globe of people transforming their social, ecological, and economic systems in response to the climate crisis.

It also has dispatches from more than a dozen leading scholars working on the front lines of the climate justice movement.

This has been another episode of the New Books in Urban Studies podcast.

I've been speaking with Billy Fleming, who's the author of the book Building Post-Carbon Futures, Land Justice and Energy Transitions.

recently published by Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

I highly recommend you find a copy of this ideally print as a good local bookstore because the print version is really stunning and it really renders these case studies in a variety of amazing photographs with local photographers and other commissioned work.