Urban Land Markets Improving Land Management for Successful Urbanization / edited by Somik V. Lall, Mila Freire, Belinda Yuen, Robin Rajack, Jean-Jacques Helluin.

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...

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Other Authors: Lall, Somik V. (Editor), Freire, Mila (Editor), Yuen, Belinda (Editor), Rajack, Robin (Editor), Helluin, Jean-Jacques (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Series:Springer eBook Collection.
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Table of Contents:
  • Land Markets, Regulation, and Welfare
  • Government Land Use Interventions: An Economic Analysis
  • The Effect of Residential Land Market Regulations on Urban Welfare
  • Land Use Regulation: Transferring Lessons from Developed Economies
  • Making Urban Land Markets Work Better in South African Cities and Towns: Arguing the Basis for Access by the Poor
  • Land Market Policies and the Urban Poor
  • The Formalization of Urban Land Tenure in Developing Countries
  • Social and Economic Impacts of Land Titling Programs in Urban and Periurban Areas: A Short Review of the Literature
  • Informal Neighborhoods in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region: Understanding the Effects of Land Regulation on the Welfare of the Poor
  • Informal Rental Markets: The Low-Quality, High-Price Puzzle in Nairobi’s Slums
  • Assessing Benefits of Slum Upgrading Programs in Second-Best Settings
  • Housing Demand, Tenure Choice, and Housing Policy in Brazil
  • Housing Conditions and Income Distribution: Evidence from São Paulo
  • Public Land Management
  • Does Public Ownership and Management of Land Matter for Land Market Outcomes?
  • Taking Land Around the World: International Trends in Expropriation for Urban and Infrastructure Projects
  • Guiding Spatial Changes: Singapore Urban Planning
  • Aid, Density, and Urban Form: Anticipating Dakar.