Cover -- Title Page -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- The Importance of Municipal Finance -- Chapter 1: Municipal Revenue Options in a Time of Financial Crisis -- Chapter 2: Financing Cities -- Intergovernmental Transfers and Municipal Fiscal Structures -- Chapter 3: Intergovernmental Transfers to Local Governments -- Chapter 4: Trends in Local Government Revenues: The Old, the New, and the Future -- Chapter 5: Creative Designs of the Patchwork Quilt of Municipal Finance -- Broad-Based Local Taxes and Development Impact Fees -- Chapter 6: The Contribution of Local Sales and Income Taxes to Fiscal Autonomy -- Chapter 7: The Effects of Development Impact Fees on Local Fiscal Conditions -- Chapter 8: A New Financial Instrument of Value Capture in São Paulo -- Financing Submunicipal Services -- Chapter 9: Governance Structures and Financial Authority in Submunicipal Districts: Implications for Fiscal Performance -- Chapter 10: Does a Rising Tide Compensate for the Secession of the Successful? -- Chapter 11: Does TIF Make It More Difficult to Manage Municipal Budgets? -- Chapter 12: Homeowners Associations and Their Impact on the Local Public Budget -- Capital Financing of Infrastructure -- Chapter 13: Complex Debt for Financing Infrastructure -- Chapter 14: Prospects for Private Infrastructure in the United States: The Case of Toll Roads -- Comparisons of the Property Tax with Other Revenue Instruments -- Chapter 15: An Analysis of Alternative Revenue Sources for Local Governments -- Chapter 16: The Best of Times or the Worst of Times? How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Index -- ABOUT THE LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY.