Land Value Maps for Earth Rights Democracy

Five Powerfully Informative Videos

A functional democracy needs basic informational truth in order to fulfill the promises of a just and fair society. A fundamental truth necessary to understand how to reverse the play of power that has led us to gross wealth inequality is to know who owns what land where (and its value) in our neighborhoods, towns and cities. Transparent and detailed digital land maps give us this important data, tell us who pays what property taxes, and can model tax reform approaches that will keep our wealth in our communities. Here are five videos on Land Value Mapping:

Internal Colonialism, Land Value Maps and Land Value Taxation

https://rumble.com/v2uxmuc-internal-colonialism-land-maps-and-land-value-taxation.html

In this video Joshua Vincent, Director of the Center for the Study of Economics, presents land value maps of the City of Baltimore to people from Ireland, UK, Germany, India, the Philippines, Nigeria, Costa Rica, Canada, Australia and the US. The presentation impressed everyone with the power and potential of this information technology to build movements for “earth rights democracy” – a new form of democracy based on the equal right by birth to the earth’s land and natural resources. Land mapping gives exact and specific details of how land rent – the unearned income from land – currently flows out of low-income and impoverished areas where much of the land is owned by absentees and speculators and into the pockets of those who live in high income areas or to private corporations.

Land value maps show in precise and stark detail the workings of a predatory economic system that can be viewed as “internal colonialism”. The can also show us how to solve this problem at its source.

Land Value Maps UK

https://rumble.com/v307ga2-landvaluemaps-uk-joshvincent-to-iu-executive.html

The data and land value maps presented show how the land rent flows from the periphery of the UK especially from the poorer North to the London center and region. This information technology gives clear and precise visuals of how a “reverse Robin Hood” predatory land tenure system robs from the poor and gives to the rich. It also gives us the power to model how to keep the common wealth of our communities at home in our towns and cities in order to build strong local based economies.

Land Value Mapping Part 1

https://rumble.com/v5jcceh-land-value-mapping-training-part-one.html

People from all five continents participated in this first of three training sessions about the principles, power and praxis of land value mapping. This is a powerful tool that can help us think critically about what harms or helps a community.

The contents of this video include a history of land mapping; Singapore land value and land use maps; Baltimore and Estonia’s land value maps. In Baltimore land value maps clearly show how absentee land-owners pay more when shifting to land value taxes.

Land Value Mapping Part 2

https://rumble.com/v66m4as-land-value-mapping-with-joshua-vincent-part-2.html

Joshua Vincent, Director, Center for the Study of Economics describes the purpose of land value mapping:

(1) Convey Information (2) Highlight a Problem (3) Tell a Story (4) Propose Solutions

Case Studies: Danville, Virginia, USA and New Zealand Indigenous Land Rights

Who owns your neighborhood? Importance of knowing.

Land Value Mapping Part 3

https://rumble.com/v6bw8p4-landvaluemappingpart-3.html

Presented by Joshua Vincent, Director of the Center for the Study of Economics and Cristhian Areas from Nicaragua now completing his thesis at the University of Peace in Costa Rica.

Case Studies: Baltimore, MD, USA and Upala, Costa Rica, an impoverished region where small farmer land has been increasingly bought up by agribusiness corporations. Land value mapping details what exactly is happening there, who owns what land and its value, and to indicate how tax shift to land value tax (commons rent) would help to establish small farms for regenerative local agriculture.

For more see the International Union for Land Value Taxation here: https://theiu.org/