ABSTRACT
Uses of land and other factors of production in an economy are the outcome of numerous decisions taken within a calculus of decision-making units. The key to a better understanding is the ability to see each unit and its inherent potentialities as a component of a national or regional framework of decision-making units, the land use pattern of which and the distribution and employment of resources within which, are dependent upon the decisions taken and executed by the holder of each individual proprietary land unit. Some care has been exercised in introducing the notion of a proprietary land unit to speak of property rights in land as the seat of the power which sanctions the decision-making activities within the unit. The fictitious proprietary character form is a compound, standing at the other pole from the simple. The characteristic features discernible in each proprietary land unit differ in a variety of ways; the development use pattern may be heterogeneous or homogeneous.
