Urban land policy : issues and opportunities
Dunkerley, Harold B. [editor]
The availability and price of urban land affect project design and the relation of economic and social cost to benefits. Conversely, the projects supported by the Bank often have a significant influence on the supply or, and demand of, urban land - and hence affect land prices. Wider considerations of land utilization are involved in the quest for more efficient spatial patterns, more employment opportunities, and a less uneven distribution of income and wealth between the rich and the poor. This book includes: 1) an overview of urban land issues that most clearly impinge on the preparation and implementation of urban projects and programs; 2) a discussion on the economic valuation of land, based on the opportunity cost of using land for one purpose rather than another, and with the underlying relationships behind shifts in the provision of services; 3) a discussion on the different types of urban land tenure in relation to objectives of equity and efficiency; 4) a brief description of how these issues are linked to government intervention and how such interventions may take form; 5) a discussion of measures to influence the allocation of surplus values created in the development of urban land, including various forms of land taxation and government acquisition and development of land; and 6) an overview of other forms of regulation of land use, the general limitations to which they are subject, and the characteristics of individual regulatory tools.
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