ABSTRACT
This book promised in its introduction ‘not to take property for granted’. It also promised ‘to be attentive as to how things are not’. In trying to keep to these commitments, it has explored two key questions: what comprises property diversity in land, and what are (at least) some of its implications for our propertied landscapes. Its call to action is to be conscious of the myopic constraints that limit our ‘seeing’ of property in land. Optimally, we should be enlivened to property’s imaginative possibilities. If, as Carol Rose warns that what we see is what we get, then we must be prepared to be open to the possibilities, to the seeing of something paradigmatically new, and all the implications this ‘new “envisioning” may bring’ (Rose 1994).
