First appearing in the 1960s, land banking emerged as an important mechanism to address property abandonment, tax delinquency, and neighborhood stability. Its extraordinary resurgence after the Great Recession prompted Frank S. Alexander, co-founder of the Center for Community Progress and professor of law at Emory University, to re-release Land Banks and Land Banking, the authoritative resource on which eight states introduced and modeled their land banking legislation. This new edition includes insights from the latest wave of land banks, drawing on the experience of the nation’s 125 land banks.