"As formerly community-owned land and natural resources are privatized and titling schemes proliferate, Property Rights from Below questions the trend towards treating land as a commodity and explores alternatives to the Western model."

"As part of the urbanization process, suburban development involves the conversion of rural land to urban use. When discussing the suburbs, most writers focus on particular countries in the northern hemisphere, implying that patterns and processes elsewhere are fundamentally different. The...

We show how small to medium sized cities can make use of the cellular automata (CA) approach to integrate land use data and other GIS based data with inter-active scenario evaluation. In our model development we put particular focus on the interdependency between transport infrastructure supply...

Assembling land for urban development : issues and opportunities / Yu-Hung Hong -- Mandatory happiness? : land readjustment and property in Germany / Benjamin Davy -- More than land assembly : land readjustment for the supply of urban public services / Rachelle Alterman -- Consensus, persuasion,...