Property Rights, Planning and Markets

Managing Spontaneous Cities

Chris Webster, Lawrence W.-C. Lai (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

264 Seiten

2003
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-84064-904-8 (ISBN)

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This book represents a major innovation in the institutional analysis of cities and their planning, management and governance. Using concepts of transaction costs and property rights, the work shows systematically how urban order evolves as individuals co-operate in cities for mutual gain. Five kinds of urban order are examined, arising as co-operating individuals seek to reduce the costs of transacting with each other. These are organisational order (combinations of property rights), institutional order (rules and sanctions), proprietary order (fragmentation of property rights), spatial order and public domain order. Property Rights, Planning and Markets also offers an institutional interpretation of urban planning and management that challenges both the view that planning inevitably conflicts with freedom of contract and the view that its function is a means of correcting market failures.

Real life examples from countries and regions around the world are used to illustrate the universal relevance of theoretical generalisations, which will be welcomed by a new generation of policymakers and students who take on a world view that goes beyond national boundaries.

Chris Webster, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong and Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai, Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research, Department of Real Estate & Construction, University of Hong Kong

Contents: Foreword by Yoram Barzel 1. Introduction 2. The Benefits and Costs of Co-operating in Cities 3. Organisational, Institutional and Proprietary Order 4. Spatial Order 5. Public Domain Order 6. Public Domain Order – Public Goods 7. Public Domain Order – Externalities 8. Conclusion Bibliography Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.4.2003
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Sachenrecht
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10	1-84064-904-6 / 1840649046
ISBN-13	978-1-84064-904-8 / 9781840649048
Zustand	Neuware