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Housing developers’ perceived barriers to implementing municipal sustainability requirements in Swedish sustainability-profiled districts
Swedish municipalities are taking an active role in sha** and implementing sustainability-related policies in urban development by initiating and...
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Land as Common Property: The Fit of Land Governance with Ostrom’s Design Principles
Ostrom’s design principles have been widely recognized in sustaining commons governance. However, studies focusing on the assessment of the design...
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Real Property Transactions in the Network Society: Platform Real Estate, Housing Hactivism, and the Re-scaling of Public and Private Power
Technology is rapidly transforming the landscape of land ownership and housing transactions, creating new types of consumer risk and new regulatory...
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Exploring the challenges in the development of retirement village homes through Public-Private Partnerships
The trend in population ageing has promoted a rapid growth in retirement village industry. However, a significant capital investment is required for...
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Urban community gardens in Cape Town, South Africa: navigating land access and land tenure security
Land tenure security continues to pose a significant challenge to the sustainability of urban community gardens in global South cities. However, a...
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Making Land ‘Developable’ for Market-Driven Affordable Housing in Gauteng, South Africa
This chapter excavates affordable housing’s pre-history through exploring mundane, bureaucratic practices and instruments of land use management....
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Understanding the relationship between residential environment, social exclusion, and life satisfaction of private renters in Shenzhen
The recent revival of the private rented sector in many regions highlights the importance of understanding the well-being of private renters. While...
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Price impacts of signalling in Chinese residential land auctions
Auctions are used by local Chinese governments to raise revenue while releasing land for development. Because developers reveal their valuation of...
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A Fixed and Versatile Resource: Land Resources
This chapter introduces the use and allocation of land resources and analyses the use of land resources in China. Section 6.1 of the chapter...
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Urban Development and Land Controversies in Rural Hong Kong: An Indigenous Rights Perspective
This chapter provides an overview of the land rights situation and related controversies in rural Hong Kong from Indigenous rights and other...
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The dilemma of flood occurrence in Accra: climate change or poor land use planning and practices?
Over the years, climate change and land use planning are considered debateable perspectives on the true cause of the perennial flooding in many...
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Tiny Homes, Co-housing, and Community Land Trusts
Housing represents an important part of the built environment. The creation of a sustainable and attainable housing system requires innovative...
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Myths of Progress: Real-Estate Development, Private Property and Dwelling Outside Ownership
This essay examines the case of Marianella, a mixed-tenure development in Dublin, where social tenants were excluded from a series of homemaking and...
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Providing Urban Infrastructure Using Land-Based Financing Mechanisms. A Collaboration Between State and Non-state Actors in Ghana
The rapid urbanization of cities in the Global South, and indeed Ghanaian cities has left many Municipalities grappling with a widening gap in...
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Vote Buying as Rent Seeking: Land Sales in China’s Village Elections
What explains why vote buying occurs in some elections but not others? The phenomenon of vote buying is under-studied in authoritarian,...
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Specific Zoning and Land Use Pattern
This chapter focuses on the most frequently used planning tool in China-specific zoning. The effects of specific zoning on land use pattern is...
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Land accessibility and housing development in nigerian border communities
Land is fundamental in housing production. Without easy access to land, issues of housing may not be adequately discussed. This study examines...
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Sociopolitical economy and spatial accentuation of neighbourhood gentrification in East Malaysia
The rapid displacement and land expropriation from property owners are generating an imbalance between lower-income households and the developers in...
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Politics of Land Use Regulations
The proposed changes in land use regulations in the course of the revision of Mumbai’s Development Plan and the controversies it raised have proven a...
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The evolving dynamics of land administration and its implications for physical planning in Sub-Saharan Africa: experiences from Wa, Ghana
The New Urban Agenda and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 11 recognize the importance of cities as engines of growth and development....
