ABSTRACT
In Chapter 1 we described land-use planning as the activity of a public agency ‘to realize the ambitions which it adopts for the land use in a particular location’. In the first part of this present chapter we investigate how a public agency can do that: with what sort of measures and how those measures affect the exercise of rights in land. In Chapter 1 we pointed out also that the land use in a particular location is influenced by the way in which rights in land are created and structured and by the rules governing the ‘traffic’ in those rights, also by the initial assignment of the rights in that location. This means that land use is influenced not only by regulatory land-use planning but also by how that market in rights is set up. Here we give an overview of how both ways together influence the land use in a particular location. The last section makes the choice explicit: how should the public desire to influence land-use decisions be realized, with what combination of rules?
