1st Edition

Planning By Law and Property Rights Reconsidered

Edited By Barrie Needham, Thomas Hartmann Copyright 2012
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

Countries which take spatial planning seriously should take planning law and property rights also seriously. There is an unavoidable logical relationship between planning, law, and property rights. However, planning by law and property rights is so familiar and taken for granted that we do not think about the theory behind it. As a result, we do not think abstractly about its strengths and... Read more
Contents: Introduction: why reconsider planning by law and property rights? Thomas Hartmann and Barrie Needham; Part I Methods for Exploring the Possibilities: Interests and rights in property, and their place in land-use; Exploring the effects of property rights using game simulation, Esther Geuting and Barrie Needham. Part II Coping with the Wider Institutional Framework: Planning law reform and change in post-apartheid South Africa, Mark Oranje and Stephen Berrisford; Talking about property rights over tea: discourse and policy in the US and Europe, Harvey M. Jacobs; Managing riverside property: spatial water management in Germany from a Dutch perspective, Thomas Hartmann and Tejo Spit. Part III Coping with Environmental Change: Improving institutional conditions for adaptive planning in the Netherlands, Joost Tennekes; Global climate change and the stability of property rights, A. Dan Tarlock; Government or governance? The challenge of planning for sustainability in the Ruhr, Michael Wegener. Part IV Coping with Uncertainty and Lock-Ins: Planning and uncertainty: how Dutch municipalities try to reduce uncertainty on the market for industrial properties, Huub Ploegmakers and Erwin van der Krabben; The Dutch office space tragedy: unlocking the lock-in, Leonie B. Janssen-Jansen; The fraught relationship and the conflicts in dealing with uncertainty, Edwin Buitelaar; Conclusion, Barrie Needham and Thomas Hartmann; Index.

Biography

Thomas Hartmann, is a lecturer in Planning at the Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Barrie Needham is Professor of Spatial Planning at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

"[A]s a reflection about the various aspects and challenges of planning by property rights, the book is certainly a welcome addition to an area of academic inquiry that is becoming increasingly important and deservedly so." - International Planning Studies, Claudio De Magalha, University College London, UK