1st Edition
Land Policy Planning and the Spatial Consequences of Property
By Benjamin Davy
Copyright 2012
296 Pages
by
Routledge
296 Pages
by
Routledge
Good land policy provides a diversity of land uses with plural property relations. No single kind of property rules fits the purposes of all types of land uses. Neither is a de-tached single family house like a community garden, nor a highway like a retail chain. Each land use needs its own property "fingerprint." The concept of Western ownership works with home ownership, but fails with community... Read more
Contents: Preface; The myths of property meet the comfort of planning; Multiple causes, uncertain effects; She told ya fun names!; Land values; A review of property in land; Property and the politics of belonging; Polyrational policymaking; The myth of planning meets the comforts of property; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Benjamin Davy is Professor of Land Policy, Land Management, and Municipal Geoinformation at TU Dortmund University, Germany
'While the book is theoretical, Davy links to real-time examples of planning and land policy, offering insights into the multivalent nature of ’real’ property relations as equally worthy of attention in planning policy as land use. Indeed, Davy argues that property relations are bound up in, and spatialised through, land uses. To ignore property is to fundamentally misunderstand land and its use. This kind of discussion is rarely had in planning. For these reasons, the book is very welcome.' Australian Planner
