ABSTRACT
In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments in addition to standard land use plans. Effectively steering spatial development requires a keen understanding of these instruments of land policy.
This book not only presents how such instruments function, it additionally examines how public authorities strategically manage the scarcity of land, either increasing or decreasing it, to promote a more sparing use of resources. It presents 13 instruments of land policy in specific national contexts and discusses them from the perspectives of other countries. Through the use of concrete examples, the book reveals how instruments of land policy are used strategically in different policy contexts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|32 pages
Introduction
part II|66 pages
Regulating land uses without impacting property rights
chapter 6|11 pages
Land taxation in Estonia
part III|97 pages
Steering land uses through regulation impacting property rights
chapter 7|13 pages
Negotiated land use plans in the Netherlands
chapter 9|18 pages
Land readjustment in Portugal
chapter 10|14 pages
Building obligations in Switzerland
part IV|72 pages
Redefining property rights to steer land uses
chapter |5 pages
A Swiss perspective on pre-emption rights: impact without application
chapter 12|15 pages
Tradable development rights in the U.S.
chapter 13|12 pages
Long-term land leases in France
part V|65 pages
Redistributing property rights to steer land uses
chapter 15|13 pages
Expropriation for urban development purposes in Germany
part VI|15 pages
Conclusion