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 Government’s Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) to whom he acted as an independent adviser. This paper focuses on the LRRG’s recommendations “that 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 Scotland” (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 Government’s Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) to whom he acted as an independent adviser. This paper focuses on the LRRG’s recommendation “that the Scottish Government should encourage and support a greater emphasis on public interest led development” (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 Government’s Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) to whom he acted as an independent adviser. This paper focuses on the LRRG’s recommendations that to achieve the Scottish Government’s national housebuilding targets and place-making aspirations requires “the establishment of a Housing Land Corporation, a new national body charged with the acquisition and development of sufficient land” and that the Corporation “should have explicit performance targets that recognise the specific needs of small rural communities and an extended operational role to enable these to be addressed” (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 Government’s Land Reform Review Group (LRRG) to whom he acted as an independent adviser. This paper focuses on the LRRG’s recommendations “that further mechanisms are required to address the persistent challenge of vacant and derelict land in urban areas” and “that 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 Order” (see pages 103 and 122-124 of the LRRG report)

Urban Land Reform Briefing Paper No 7: Response to Scottish Government Report to its ‘Land Reform Review Sounding Board’ 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