Urban Land Markets
Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization
Editors: Lall, S.V., Freire, M., Yuen, B., Rajack, R., Helluin, J.-J. (Eds.)
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- 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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The challenge of facilitating economic density is fundamental for successful urbanization. Flexible and forward-looking institutions that help the efficient functioning of land markets are vital in this respect. In particular, institutional arrangements for regulating land use, managing public land and allocating land rights have significant implications for how cities deliver agglomeration economies and improve the welfare of their residents.
This book provides fresh insights into these issues, compiling selected pieces of analytical and empirical research presented at the World Bank's Fourth Urban Research Symposium on Urban Land Use and Land Markets, held in Washington, DC, May 2007. Specially commissioned papers helped develop a robust analytical foundation to clarify ongoing debates on urban land management and welfare and synthesized the political and administrative challenges of improving the efficiency of urban land markets. Among the questions that this book addresses are:
- Does more public intervention in land markets produce more affordable land market outcomes?
- Do conventional approaches to strengthening property rights bolster security of tenure and market transactions?
- How should governments go about integrating informal settlements with the broader city economy?
- Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Government Land Use Interventions: An Economic Analysis
Pages 3-23
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The Effect of Residential Land Market Regulations on Urban Welfare
Pages 25-49
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Land Use Regulation: Transferring Lessons from Developed Economies
Pages 51-69
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Making Urban Land Markets Work Better in South African Cities and Towns: Arguing the Basis for Access by the Poor
Pages 71-97
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The Formalization of Urban Land Tenure in Developing Countries
Pages 101-132
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Urban Land Markets
- Book Subtitle
- Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization
- Editors
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- Somik V. Lall
- Mila Freire
- Belinda Yuen
- Robin Rajack
- Jean-Jacques Helluin
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4020-8862-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4020-8862-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-1-4020-8861-2
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-9064-3
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXXVII, 408
- Topics
