Title: Byernes jord
Description: Housing prices are rising and municipalities are selling out of their land. The real estate market is hit by recurring turbulence. Land and real estate have become strategic places for investment and storage of available capital in the global financial system. Land registers have become a net for catching money. These consequences have not previously been described together in the perspective of land ownership and the private land monopoly. The author believes that the importance of the land's form of possession is an understated theme among the citizens of the cities, the political movements and in professional circles. It is these challenges that Peter Schultz Jørgensen addresses in THE LAND OF CITIES. Private ownership of land leads to democratic, ecological, economic and social problems. Copenhagen's past and especially current developments are described in this light. The author's point is that the private ownership of land that has arisen historically under completely different conditions, through philosophy and power struggles, has survived itself. Urban land should be a common good

Boligpriserne stiger og kommunerne sælger ud af deres jord. Ejendomsmarkedet rammes af tilbagevendende turbulens. Jord og ejendomme er blevet strategiske steder for investeringer og opbevaring af ledig kapital i det globale finansielle system. Matrikler er blevet et net til at fange penge. Disse konsekvenser er ikke tidligere blevet beskrevet samlet i jordejendommens og det private jordmonopols perspektiv. Forfatteren mener, at betydningen af jordens besiddelsesform er et underspillet tema blandt byernes borgere, de politiske bevægelser og i fagkredse. Det er disse udfordringer, Peter Schultz Jørgensen tager fat på i BYERNES JORD.00Den private ejendomsret til jord fører til demokratiske, økologiske, økonomiske og sociale problemer. Københavns tidligere og især aktuelle udvikling bliver beskrevet i dette lys. Forfatterens pointe er, at den private ejendomsret til jord, der er opstået historisk under helt andre vilkår, gennem filosofi og magtkampe, har overlevet sig selv. Byernes jord bør være et fælles gode.
Subjects: Housing, Prices, Land tenure, Real property
Places: Denmark, Copenhagen