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Urban Land Markets

Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization

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Editors:
  1. Somik V. Lall

    1. World Bank, Washington DC, USA

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  2. Mila Freire

    1. World Bank, Washington DC, USA

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  3. Belinda Yuen

    1. School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore

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  4. Robin Rajack

    1. World Bank, Washington DC, USA

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  5. Jean-Jacques Helluin

    1. World Bank, Washington DC, USA

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  • Deals with cutting edge research and global-local thinking on urban land use and land markets across cities
  • Discusses the pertinent issues faced by cities and urban authorities
  • Interrogates research questions that have the most practical applications
  • Analyses the implementation, barriers and effects of prevalent policies and interventions in urban land use and land markets
  • Provides empirical evidence on urban land use and land markets functioning
  • Explores alternative policy options that have been proposed and implemented to better manage urban land use and improve land market performance

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxvii
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  2. Land Markets, Regulation, and Welfare

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Government Land Use Interventions: An Economic Analysis

      • Jan K. Brueckner
      Pages 3-23

    3. The Effect of Residential Land Market Regulations on Urban Welfare

      • J. Vernon Henderson
      Pages 25-49

    4. Land Use Regulation: Transferring Lessons from Developed Economies

      • Christine Whitehead, Rebecca L. H. Chiu, Sasha Tsenkova, Bengt Turner
      Pages 51-69

    5. Making Urban Land Markets Work Better in South African Cities and Towns: Arguing the Basis for Access by the Poor

      • Mark Napier
      Pages 71-97

  3. Land Market Policies and the Urban Poor

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. The Formalization of Urban Land Tenure in Developing Countries

      • Alain Durand-Lasserve, Harris Selod
      Pages 101-132

    3. Social and Economic Impacts of Land Titling Programs in Urban and Periurban Areas: A Short Review of the Literature

      • Geoffrey Payne, Alain Durand-Lasserve, Carole Rakodi
      Pages 133-161

    4. Informal Neighborhoods in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region: Understanding the Effects of Land Regulation on the Welfare of the Poor

      • Cynthia Goytia, Gabriel Lanfranchi
      Pages 163-190

    5. Informal Rental Markets: The Low-Quality, High-Price Puzzle in Nairobi’s Slums

      • Sumila Gulyani, Debabrata Talukdar
      Pages 191-223

    6. Assessing Benefits of Slum Upgrading Programs in Second-Best Settings

      • Basab Dasgupta, Somik V. Lall
      Pages 225-251

    7. Housing Demand, Tenure Choice, and Housing Policy in Brazil

      • Maria da Piedade Morais, Bruno de Oliveira Cruz
      Pages 253-282

    8. Housing Conditions and Income Distribution: Evidence from São Paulo

      • Emilio Haddad, João Fernando Pires Meyer
      Pages 283-302

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 399-408
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About this book

As urbanization progresses at a remarkable pace, policy makers and analysts come to understand and agree on key features that will make this process more efficient and inclusive, leading to gains in the welfare of citizens. Drawing on insights from economic geography and two centuries of experience in developed countries, the World Bank’s World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography emphasizes key aspects that are fundamental to ensuring an efficient rural-urban transformation. Critical among these are land, as the most important resource, and well-functioning land markets. Regardless of the stage of urbanization, flexible and forward-looking institu- ons that help the efficient functioning of land markets are the bedrock of succe- ful urbanization strategies. In particular, institutional arrangements for allocating land rights and for managing and regulating land use have significant implica- ons for how cities deliver agglomeration economies and improve the welfare of their residents. Property rights, well-functioning land markets, and the management and servicing of land required to accommodate urban expansion and provide trunk infrastructure are all topics that arise as regions progress from incipient urbani- tion to medium and high density.

Editors and Affiliations

  • World Bank, Washington DC, USA

    Somik V. Lall, Mila Freire, Robin Rajack, Jean-Jacques Helluin

  • School of Design & Environment, National University of Singapore, Singapore

    Belinda Yuen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Urban Land Markets

  • Book Subtitle: Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization

  • Editors: Somik V. Lall, Mila Freire, Belinda Yuen, Robin Rajack, Jean-Jacques Helluin

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8862-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8861-2Published: 09 October 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9064-3Published: 28 November 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8862-9Published: 07 October 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXVII, 408

  • Topics: Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Economic Geography, Development Economics

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