Urban Land Markets

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

4. Public Land Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 303-303

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   2. Does Public Ownership and Management of Land Matter for Land Market Outcomes?

      • Robin Rajack

      Pages 305-336

   3. Taking Land Around the World: International Trends in Expropriation for Urban and Infrastructure Projects

      • Antonio Azuela, Carlos Herrera-Martín

      Pages 337-362

   4. Guiding Spatial Changes: Singapore Urban Planning

      • Belinda Yuen

      Pages 363-384

   5. Aid, Density, and Urban Form: Anticipating Dakar

      • Michael Cohen

      Pages 385-397

5. Back Matter

   Pages 399-408

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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.

• Developing Countries
• developed and developing countries
• formal and informal markets
• housing conditions
• impact evaluation of land use interventions
• infrastructure
• policy debates
• urban land use and land markets
• urban poor
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• 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

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