Making healthy places: Designing and building for health, well-being, and sustainability  / Dannenberg, A.L.; Frumkin, H.; & Jackson, R.J. (Eds.). — Washington, D.C. : Island Press, 2011.  xxii, 417 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), tables, glossary, index, bibl.  The book begins by defining healthy places and investigating the history of healthy places and the  relationship between healthy places and city planning. The second part explores the impact of  community design on health, water quality, social capital and vulnerable populations. The third part  considers how the built environment at the urban and regional scale, i.e. transportation and land use,  and at the smaller scale, i.e.homes, workplaces, health care settings and schools, can be modified  and planned to encourage better health and be sustainable, e.g. contact with nature and resiliency to  disasters. The fourth part examines the use of community engagement, legislation and measurement  to create and ensure places are made healthier. The final part discusses future research on  opportunities for healthy places and the built environment.
	Regional and local economic development  / Hague, C.; Hague, E.; & Breitbach, C. — Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.  xvi, 344 p. : ill., index, bibl. — (Planning, environment, cities)  Explores practices and trends in local and regional economic development and illustrates these methods with  brief international examples. The chapters cover how and why regional and local economies are changing;  place competition and territorial capital; the role of governance, agencies and partnerships in economic  development; supply and demand of land and premises for businesses; economic development and  communications infrastructure; sustainable construction, ecological concern and economic development;  support services for entrepreneurship and business development; housing markets; supporting urban fringe  and downtown retailing; food deserts and farmers markets; globalization and leisure attraction; cultural-led  regeneration; place marketing and branding; and an analysis of the local economic development interventions  in Chicago's Pilsen neighbourhood.
	A tale of two taxes: Property tax reform in Ontario  / Bird, R.M.; Slack, N.E.; & Tassonyi, A. — Cambridge, MA : Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2012.  xii, 275 p. : tables, graphs, index, bibl.  Summarizes the history of residential and commercial property taxation in Ontario, considers the  efficacy of the property tax as the primary revenue source of municipalities, and evaluates Ontario's  property tax reform and property assessment strategy. The book then explores local government and  school finances in Ontario, recounts the history of the property tax in the province, reviews the 1998  property tax and assessment reform, details other taxes on property that a municipality in Ontario can  levy (e.g. special assessments, local improvement charges, development charges, land transfer taxes,  tax increment equivalent grants, tax increment financing and business improvement area levies),  discusses tax competition and property taxes in the Greater Toronto Area, and considers restructuring  the property taxation system and mechanisms for municipal finance in Ontario.