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The Transition of Land to Urban Use

Journal of Political Economy, 1979
This paper investigates the economics of the transition of land from rural to urban use. A simple model is employed to examine the developer's problem: When and at what destiny should vacant land be developed to maximize the present value of the Land? A series of rules emerges from the analysis to the timing and density of new development.
Arnott, Richard J, Lewis, Frank D
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Urban Land Policy in Zimbabwe [PDF]

Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1996
Related to the functions of the central state and local state, a range of interventions in the urban land-development process may be pursued. Typically, policies and practices related to land are devised at different times for different purposes and are administered by different agencies. Rarely are the relationships between them, their implementation,
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Urbanization of Capital or Capitalization on Urban Land? Land Development and Local Public Finance in Urbanizing China

Urban Geography, 2011
This study examines the relationship between urban land development and municipal finance in a Chinese regional economy undergoing rapid urbanization. Drawing upon insights from the perspective of political economy, this study analyzes how municipalities in coastal Jiangsu Province have engaged in the land-dominated urbanization process, and the ...
Lin, G, Yi, F
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Cities and the Urban Land Premium

2015
After a long period of suburbanisation, cities have been in vogue again since the 1980s. But why are people prepared to spend far more money on a small house in the city than on a large house in the countryside - and why doesn't this apply to all cities?
de Groot, H.L.F., Marlet, G., Teulings, C., Vermeulen, W.   +3 more
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Urban Development and Control on Urban Land Rents

The Annals of Regional Science, 2016
The city and the overall urban system perform two essential roles closely connected with each other: first, they ensure territorial efficiency for economic activities by furnishing public goods and externalities, thereby supporting the competitiveness of such activities; second, they ensure collective well-being for the communities within them by ...
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Analysis of urban land expansion and simulation of urban land use in Loukou City

2017 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2017
Recently resources have been consumed sharply with the development of the city. As one of the essential nature resources, land has been directly infected. In order to discuss land change process, to provide urban development advice to the relevant government for sustainable development, this paper takes Longkou as an example, selects aerial photographs
Qixia Man, Quanyuan Wu, Pinliang Dong, Xinming Yang   +3 more
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Urban vacant land typology: A tool for managing urban vacant land

Sustainable Cities and Society, 2018
Abstract A typology of urban vacant land was developed, using Roanoke, Virginia, as the study area. A comprehensive literature review, field measurements and observations, including photographs, and quantitative based approach to assessing vacant land forest structure and values (i-Tree Eco sampling) were utilized, along with aerial photo ...
Gunwoo Kim, Patrick A. Miller, David J. Nowak   +2 more
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Land privatization in urban Mongolia: an observation

Survey Review, 2013
The land privatization process in Mongolia mainly concerns residential land. The process is considered to perform slowly. The deadline for free allocation of residential land was extended from 2005 to 2013. Still, the number of families that have acquired private landownership during that period is low.
Nyamdorj, B., van der Molen, P., Tuladhar, A.M.   +2 more
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Land Tax and Urban Land Supply

Japanese Economic Studies, 1991
The land prices in Japan are abnormally high by international standards. Their adverse effects are intensely reflected in the inferior housing conditions in large cities. Especially in the large metropolitan regions, people are forced to live in small houses, which have been compared to "rabbit hutches," or else must endure exceedingly long commuting ...
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Land is back: The urban land rent

Abstract In 2019 total built-up land (villages, towns, cities, and human infrastructure) varies, according to the definition of what urban land is, from 1% to 3% of the world’s habitable land. Thus, there seems to be a vast oversupply of land. Yet, in 2002 the value of residential land in the U.S. was twice its GDP.
Hans R.A. Koster, Stef Proost, Jacques-François Thisse   +2 more
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