Vor dem Hintergrund stark steigender Boden- und Wohnraumpreise in attraktiven deutschen Großstädten werden seit einigen Jahren intensive Debatten über die Eigentumsverhältnisse an innerstädtischen Grundstücken geführt. Zunehmend mehr Gehör konnten sich zuletzt jene Stimmen verschaffen,...

The field of ‘Urban Economics’ is an elusive object, whose US-based origins and internationalization we attempt to track in this paper. The most stable and distinctive object associated with the term ‘urban economics’ is the Alonso-Muth-Mills model. We thus reconstruct the field through...

In this paper, we focus on the role and economic effect of land ownership and land monopoly in emerging urban environments. Land monopoly in conventional economics is a theoretical ‘impossibility’ which, nonetheless, allows for a spatial empirical approach. We design a spatial land monopoly...

We present an urban land use model with land registration decisions and potential ethnic matching between buyers and sellers of informal land. We use the model to study the market failures associated with land tenure insecurity and information asymmetry regarding risks of contested land...

In the rapidly changing sphere of urban development, land is shown to provide the basic morphological structure of the city, but also the source of economic and social power and the key to planning through examples from around the world

Contemporary capitalism has produced gentrification, socio-spatial stratification and racial inequality. In this book, Nicholas Blomley shows how the concept of "property" helps to generate and underwrite these pervasive urban processes