1st Edition
Planning, Law and Economics The Rules We Make for Using Land
By Barrie Needham
Copyright 2006
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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What rights does the state have over privately owned land? Why should some landowners be favoured over others? How can the practice of land-use planning be improved?
This book addresses these essential questions and shows that the interests people have in property rights over land and buildings are not just emotional but often financial too. It follows that the law, which affects who has... Read more
1. Land-use Planning and Property Rights: A Fraught Relationship 2. Two Ways in which Laws can Influence How Land is Used 3. The Legal Language: Rights in Land 4. The Economic Language: Making a Good Use of Scarce Resources 5. An Evaluation of Property Law: Rules under Public Law 6. An Evaluation of Property Law: Rules Under Private Law 7. Application: Achieving Neighbourhood Quality 8. Application: Regional Land-use Planning 9. Conclusions: The Rules we Make for Using Land
Biography
Barrie Needham is Professor of Spatial Planning at the University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
'Needham's book is a very well argued riposte to those who would argue that planning controls are unnecessary...' - Alan Evans, University of Reading (2008)
