Land and the City: Patterns and Processes of Urban Change Book

	List of figures
	List of tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
	Land as urban morphology	3
	Land as power	5
	Land as the basis of the planning system	7
	Land as environment	9
	Urban change	9
2	Urban Land Allocation	13
	The particular nature of urban land	13
	Market forces	14
	Models of urban land use and land allocation	17
	Public intervention	32
3	Measuring and Monitoring Urban Land	43
	Introduction	43
	Procedural matters	44
	Urban land use statistics	46
	Land ownership and values	55
	Appendix A	57
4	Patterns and Changes of Land Use	60
	The overall extent of urban land	60
	Composition of urban land	65
	Land use change	70
	Land availability	73
	Changing urban land use: case studies	75
	Causes, explanations and processes	87
5	Land Ownership	93
	The importance of land ownership	94
	Who owns land?	96
	The private sector	97
	The public sector	109
6	Land Policy	124
	The development process	125
	Reasons for land policy	129
	Instruments and techniques of land policy	133
	Land policy: case studies	139
7	Vacant and Derelict Land	150
	The extent and nature of urban wasteland	150
	Causes of vacant and derelict land	159
	Land restoration policies	170
8	Some Conclusions	177
	Current trends	178
	Transitions	185
	Future urban change	193
	References	196
	Index	213