Urban Land Markets

Part I. Land Markets, Regulation, and Welfare

1. Government Land Use Interventions: An Economic Analysis
Jan K. Brueckner

2. The Effect of Residential Land Market Regulations on Urban Welfare
J. Vernon Henderson

3. Land Use Regulation: Transferring Lessons from Developed Economies
Christine Whitehead, Rebecca L. H. Chiu, Sasha Tsenkova, Bengt Turner

4. Making Urban Land Markets Work Better in South African Cities and Towns: Arguing the Basis for Access by the Poor
Mark Napier

Part II. Land Market Policies and the Urban Poor

5. The Formalization of Urban Land Tenure in Developing Countries
Alain Durand-Lasserve, Harris Selod

6. Social and Economic Impacts of Land Titling Programs in Urban and Periurban Areas: A Short Review of the Literature
Geoffrey Payne, Alain Durand-Lasserve, Carole Rakodi

7. Informal Neighborhoods in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Region: Understanding the Effects of Land Regulation on the Welfare of the Poor
Cynthia Goytia, Gabriel Lanfranchi

8. Informal Rental Markets: The Low-Quality, High-Price Puzzle in Nairobi’s Slums
Sumila Gulyani, Debabrata Talukdar

9. Assessing Benefits of Slum Upgrading Programs in Second-Best Settings
Basab Dasgupta, Somik V. Lall

10. Housing Demand, Tenure Choice, and Housing Policy in Brazil
Maria Piedade Morais, Bruno Oliveira Cruz

11. Housing Conditions and Income Distribution: Evidence from São Paulo
Emilio Haddad, João Fernando Pires Meyer

Part III. Public Land Management

12. Does Public Ownership and Management of Land Matter for Land Market Outcomes?
Robin Rajack

13. Taking Land Around the World: International Trends in Expropriation for Urban and Infrastructure Projects
Antonio Azuela, Carlos Herrera-Martín

14. Guiding Spatial Changes: Singapore Urban Planning
Belinda Yuen

15. Aid, Density, and Urban Form: Anticipating Dakar
Michael Cohen

Nyckelord: Geography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Economic Geography, Development Economics