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Urban Land Reform Briefing Paper No 6: Explaining Urban Partnership Zones
This is one of six briefing papers prepared by Professor David Adams of the University of Glasgow to
help explain key proposals for urban land reform made in 2014 by the Scottish Governmentâs Land
Reform Review Group (LRRG) to whom he acted as an independent adviser. This paper focuses on the
LRRGâs recommendations âthat the well-established international practice of property land
readjustment or land-pooling provides another effective means of addressing fragmented or multiple
ownership of land. The Group recommends that the Scottish Government investigates the potential of
introducing an Urban Partnership Zone mechanism in Scotlandâ (see pages 126-128 of the LRRG
report)
Urban Land Reform Briefing Paper No 4: Explaining Public Interest Led Development
This is one of six briefing papers prepared by Professor David Adams of the University of Glasgow to
help explain key proposals for urban land reform made in 2014 by the Scottish Governmentâs Land
Reform Review Group (LRRG) to whom he acted as an independent adviser. This paper focuses on the
LRRGâs recommendation âthat the Scottish Government should encourage and support a greater
emphasis on public interest led developmentâ (see pages 128-129 of the LRRG report)
Urban Land Reform Briefing Paper No 2: Explaining the Housing Land Corporation
This is one of six briefing papers prepared by Professor David Adams of the University of Glasgow to
help explain key proposals for urban land reform made in 2014 by the Scottish Governmentâs Land
Reform Review Group (LRRG) to whom he acted as an independent adviser. This paper focuses on the
LRRGâs recommendations that to achieve the Scottish Governmentâs national housebuilding targets and
place-making aspirations requires âthe establishment of a Housing Land Corporation, a new national
body charged with the acquisition and development of sufficient landâ and that the Corporation âshould
have explicit performance targets that recognise the specific needs of small rural communities and an
extended operational role to enable these to be addressedâ (see pages 132-141 of the LRRG report)
Urban Land Reform Briefing Paper No 1: Explaining Compulsory Sale Orders
This is one of six briefing papers prepared by Professor David Adams of the University of Glasgow to
help explain key proposals for urban land reform made in 2014 by the Scottish Governmentâs Land
Reform Review Group (LRRG) to whom he acted as an independent adviser. This paper focuses on the
LRRGâs recommendations âthat further mechanisms are required to address the persistent challenge of
vacant and derelict land in urban areasâ and âthat Local Authorities should have the right to exercise a
Compulsory Sale Order over an area of vacant or derelict land, and also that Community Councils, or
appropriate community bodies, should have the right to request that a local authority exercises a
Compulsory Sale Orderâ (see pages 103 and 122-124 of the LRRG report)
Urban Land Reform Briefing Paper No 7: Response to Scottish Government Report to its âLand Reform Review Sounding Boardâ on its Recent Housing and Regeneration Consultation
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Dirac operator index and topology of lattice gauge fields
The fermionic topological charge of lattice gauge fields, given in terms of a
spectral flow of the Hermitian Wilson--Dirac operator, or equivalently, as the
index of Neuberger's lattice Dirac operator, is shown to have analogous
properties to L\"uscher's geometrical lattice topological charge. The main new
result is that it reduces to the continuum topological charge in the classical
continuum limit. (This is sketched here; the full proof will be given in a
sequel to this paper.) A potential application of the ideas behind fermionic
lattice topological charge to deriving a combinatorial construction of the
signature invariant of a 4-manifold is also discussed.Comment: 16 pages, based on talk at Chiral'99 (Sept. 13-18, 1999, Taipei), to
be published in the Proceeding
Relation between bare lattice coupling and MSbar coupling at one loop with general lattice fermions
A compact general integral formula is derived from which the fermionic
contribution to the one-loop coefficient in the perturbative expansion of the
MSbar coupling in powers of the bare lattice coupling can be extracted. It is
seen to reproduce the known results for unimproved naive, staggered and Wilson
fermions, and has advantageous features which facilitate the evaluation in the
case of improved lattice fermion formulations. This is illustrated in the case
of Wilson clover fermions, and an expression in terms of known lattice
integrals is obtained in this case which gives the coefficient to much greater
numerical accuracy than in the previous literature.Comment: 26 pages, 1 figure, to appear in Phys.Rev.D. Completely rewritten
with new title and new material added (see abstract). Some material from the
previous version has been removed since it was superceded by arXiv:0709.078
Index and overlap construction for staggered fermions
Recent developments regarding index and overlap construction for staggered
fermions are reviewed, highlighting the surprising and unexpected aspects.Comment: proceedings contribution for 28th International Symposium on Lattice
Field Theory, Lattice2010, June 14-19, 2010, Villasimius, Italy (slightly
extended version, 8 pages
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