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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 2|16 pages
Tilting at windmills: paradigm shifts in World Bank orthodoxy
part 3|2 pages
An overview of the land-market assessment technique
chapter 4|8 pages
Urban land and macroeconomic development: moving from “access for the poor” to urban productivity
chapter 6|8 pages
Applying a political-economy approach to land and housing markets in Zimbabwe
chapter 7|7 pages
Social agents in land and property development: relating approaches to findings in Mexico
chapter 8|12 pages
Reconstructing the meaning of urban land in Brazil: the case of Recife (Pernambuco)
part 9|2 pages
Housing the household, holding the house
chapter 11|13 pages
Measuring the price and supply of urban land markets: insights on sources
chapter 13|15 pages
Bridging conceptual and methodological issues in the study of second-hand property markets in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
part 15|2 pages
Snapshot analysis and the impact of public policy on land valorization