Analyzing Land Readjustment: Economics, Law, and Collective Action

by Yu-Hung Hong (Editor), Barrie Needham (Editor)

Overview

Great effort has been devoted to the precise delineation and assignment of the legal and physical boundaries of private property. Yet, issues of unifying or assembling private property rights for urban redevelopment remain understudied. The contributors to this book search for viable alternatives to voluntary exchange or public intervention in the form of expropriation, and propose one possibility: land readjustment. The authors explore the international possibilities for facilitating cooperative land readjustment and the circumstances under which this should be possible. The book is divided into sections that focus on international legal issues, social and cultural issues, and new experiments with urban renewal and redevelopment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781558441644
Publisher:	Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Publication date:	04/01/2007
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.53(d)
Age Range:	3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

Yu-Hung Hong was a fellow at the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

Barrie Needham is a professor at the University of Nijmegen in The Netherlands.

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
1. Assembling Land for Urban Development: Issues and Opportunities, Yu-Hung Hong

II. Legal Issues
2. Mandatory Happiness? Land Readjustment and Property in Germany, Benjamin Davy
3. More than Land Assembly: Land Readjustment for the Supply of Urban Public Services, Rachelle Alterman

III. Social and Cultural Issues
4. Consensus, Persuasion, and Opposition: Organizing Land Readjustment in Japan, André Sorensen
5. The Search for Greater Efficiency: Land Readjustment in The Netherlands, Barrie Needham

IV. Experiments
6. New Experiments to Solve Urban Renewal Problems in China, Ling Hin Li and Xin Li
7. Land Assembly, Land Readjustment, and Public/Private Redevelopment, Lynne B. Sagalyn

V. Summary
8. Law, Reciprocity, and Economic Incentives, Yu-Hung Hong