Planning by law and property rights reconsidered
By: by Thomas Hartmann and Barrie Needham
Contributors: Needham, Barrie
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Surrey, UK, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9781409437215; 9781409437222
Subjects: Right of property; Land use; Law and legislation; City planning and redevelopment law
Description: "Countries which take spatial planning seriously should also take planning law and property rights 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 weaknesses, about what can be achieved with it and what not, how it can be improved, how it could be complemented. Such reflections are essential to cope with current and future challenges to spatial planning. This book makes the (often implicit) theory behind planning by law and property rights explicit and relates it to those challenges. It starts by setting out what is understood by simulation--the relationships between planning law and property rights, and investigates--theoretically and by game simulation--the relationships between planning law and property rights. It then places planning law and property rights within their institutional setting at three different scales: when a country undergoes enormous social and political change; when there is fundamental political debate about the power of the state within a country; and when a country changes its legislation in response to European policy. Not only changing institutions, but also global environmental change pose huge challenges for spatial planning. The book discusses how planning by law and property rights can respond to those challenges: by adaptive planning, by adaptable property rights, and by public policies at the appropriate geographical level"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Why reconsider planning by law and property rights? / Thomas Hartmann & Barrie Needham; title: Interests and rights in property, and their place in land-use planning : a theoretical investigation / Barrie Needham; title: Exploring the effects of property rights using game simulation / Esther Geuting, Barrie Needham; title: Planning law reform and change in post-apartheid South Africa / Mark Oranje and Stephen Berrisford; title: Talking about property rights over tea : discourse and policy in the U.S. and Europe / Harvey M. Jacobs; title: Managing riverside property : spatial water management in Germany from a Dutch perspective / Thomas Hartmann & Tejo Spit; title: Improving institutional conditions for adaptive planning in the Netherlands / Joost Tennekes; title: Global climate change and the stability of property rights / A. Dan Tarlock; title: Government or governance? The challenge of planning for sustainability in the Ruhr / Michael Wegener; title: Planning and uncertainty : how Dutch municipalities try to reduce uncertainty on the market for industrial properties / Huub Ploegmakers & Erwin van der Krabben; title: The Dutch office space tragedy : unlocking the lock-in / Leonie B. Janssen-Jansen; title: The fraught relationship between planning and regulation : land use plans and the conflicts in dealing with uncertainty / Edwin Buitelaar; title: Planning by law and property rights reconsidered / Barrie Needham & Thomas Hartmann.