Land Policy

Benjamin Davy is Professor of Land Policy, Land Management, and Municipal Geoinformation at TU Dortmund University, Germany

• Contents: Preface; The myths of property meet the comfort of planning; Multiple causes, uncertain effects; She told ya fun names!; Land values; A review of property in land; Property and the politics of belonging; Polyrational policymaking; The myth of planning meets the comforts of property; Bibliography; Index.

'While the book is theoretical, Davy links to real-time examples of planning and land policy, offering insights into the multivalent nature of ’real’ property relations as equally worthy of attention in planning policy as land use. Indeed, Davy argues that property relations are bound up in, and spatialised through, land uses. To ignore property is to fundamentally misunderstand land and its use. This kind of discussion is rarely had in planning. For these reasons, the book is very welcome.' Australian Planner