ABSTRACT

The aim of this book is to bring methods of land-market and land-price analysis to the foreground. It relates substantive research findings for land and urban development and blends these with a focus on research design and methodology. Its findings have relevance beyond the topics of housing and land: it broaches the whole question of how research design and general approach may lead to fundamentally different findings, different priorities, and different policy prescriptions and preoccupations. It is based on work done in the Third World, but is also relevant to studies of the industrialized world.

chapter 2|16 pages

Tilting at windmills: paradigm shifts in World Bank orthodoxy

Gareth Jones & Peter M.Ward Introduction: tilting at windmills?

part 3|2 pages

An overview of the land-market assessment technique

chapter |18 pages

The benefits of LMA

chapter 6|8 pages

Applying a political-economy approach to land and housing markets in Zimbabwe

Carole Rakodi Background and aims of the research

chapter |10 pages

Sources of data

chapter 8|12 pages

Reconstructing the meaning of urban land in Brazil: the case of Recife (Pernambuco)

Willem Assies Understanding the meaning of land

chapter |6 pages

Concluding observations

part 9|2 pages

Housing the household, holding the house

chapter |13 pages

Houses and households: mapping complexity

chapter |4 pages

Conclusion

part 15|2 pages

Snapshot analysis and the impact of public policy on land valorization