Cities and Private Planning

Property Rights, Entrepreneurship and Transaction Costs

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

AvDavid Emanuel Andersson,Stefano Moroni

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Through comprehensive case studies of privately planned cities and neighborhood in Asia, Europe and North America, this book characterizes the theoretical basis and empirical manifestations of private urban planning. In this innovative volume, Andersson and Moroni develop an under-studied aspect of urban planning and re-evaluate conceptions of our urban future.Urban planning is often construed only as a form of public planning. This misinterpretation is revealed through an empirical focus on how cities have been planned in the past and how the capacity of private actors will shape planning in the future. Private planning is responsible for most small-scale infill developments, ranging from single-family housing to hotels. However, examples of non-governmental actors that plan larger areas, such as homeowners' associations in the United States and private cities in India, are becoming manifest. Private urban planners are guided by price signals to supply infrastructure and regulations that make land more valuable. Using analytical tools from theoretical traditions such as Austrian and new institutional economics, the contributors to this book eschew the mainstream assumptions that underlie much of the critique of profit-seeking entrepreneurship among urban planners, sociologists and geographers.This volume will be invaluable for urban planners. Economists in a variety of fields will also be interested in the diverse application of economic theory, including applied urban economists, Austrian economists, new institutional economists and public choice economists.Contributors: N. Alfasi, D.E. Andersson, W.E. Block, E. Buitelaar, W. Cox, F.E. Foldvary, M. Galle, P. Gordon, R.G. Holcombe, L.W-C. Lai, A. Lowi, S. MacCallum, T. Margalit, S. Moroni, R. O'Toole, S. Rajagopalan, N. Sorel, A. Tabarrok

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Utgivningsdatum2014-09-26
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
FörlagEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN9781783475056

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Contents:1. Private Enterprise and the Future of Urban PlanningStefano Moroni and David Emanuel AnderssonPART 1: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES2. Cities and Planning: The Role of System ConstraintsDavid Emanuel Andersson3. Towards a General Theory of Contractual Communities: Neither Necessarily Gated, nor a Form of PrivatizationStefano Moroni4. Governance by Voluntary AssociationFred E. Foldvary5. Private Urban Planning and Free EnterpriseWalter E. Block6. Community Technology: Liberating Community DevelopmentAlvin Lowi and Spencer MacCallum7. Planning by Contract: Two DialoguesLawrence Wai-Chung LaiPART II: CASE STUDIES AND POLICIES8. Modern Cities: Their Role and Their Private Planning RootsPeter Gordon and Wendell Cox9. Houston’s Land-Use Regime: A Model for the NationRandal O’Toole10. Lessons from Gurgaon, India’s Private CityShruti Rajagopalan and Alexander Tabarrok11. The Rise and Fall of Growth Management in FloridaRandall G. Holcombe12. The Public Planning of Private Planning: An Analysis of Controlled Spontaneity in the NetherlandsEdwin Buitelaar, Maaike Galle and Niels Sorel13. The Challenge of Regulating Private Planning InitiativesNurit Alfasi and Talia MargalitIndex

‘This is a wonderfully subversive book that should be essential reading for all students of urban planning. Cities evolve under the influence of multiple individual land development plans. Coordination between these can happen to varying degrees, at various spatial scales, under the leadership of different organisations and through multiple mechanisms. Planning education and practice has by and large missed this point for over half a century. We need a new knowledge-base for city-shaping in the 21st century and this book lays some of the essential foundations.’