Value of Place

Edited by Frank Moulaert, Emeritus Professor of Spatial Planning, KU Leuven, Belgium and Abid Mehmood, Senior Lecturer in International Planning and Sustainability, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, UK

• Contents1 Introduction: the multifarious character of land values in regional development 1Frank Moulaert and Abid MehmoodTHEME 1 (ECONOMIC) DEVELOPMENT AND LAND VALUES 2 Capitalism is over, but the new is worse: reflections on rent, services, and capitalist feudalism 23Erik Swyngedouw3 Rent, agglomeration, and the economy of London 40Michael Edwards4 Trends and challenges in post-COVID-19 housing accessibility: a Greek perspective 50Georgia TsevaTHEME 2 URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES: ROLES FOR LAND 5 To informality and beyond: informal economic resilience and the case for social cohesion 73Abid Mehmood6 TINA’s shadow: navigating fragments of the ‘social’ in the European Union 83Carlos Rodrigues7 The good, the bad and the ugly (and the even uglier): policy implications for Europe in times of welfare chauvinism, penal populism, and new workfare programmes 101 Enrica Morlicchio and Jonathan Pratschke 8 Social citizenship between universalism and local practices: care services in Southern Europe at times of neoliberal austerity 113 Marisol García Cabeza and Dina Vaiou 9 Regional divides, territorial cohesion, and urban inclusion: the role of social services 128 Antonella Sarlo 10 Greece: drafting a new law on forest land in the context of land policy 142 Louis C. Wassenhoven 11 Tourism policy development in Southern Italy: evolution, turning points, and impacts 156 Chiara Corazziere 12 European Union territorial strategies for sustainable island development in Croatia 171 Marijana Sumpor 13 Tourism unveiled through a dialogue with sustainable local development 189 Constanza Parra 14 Embedded planning and planners: rethinking the role of planning and planners in an era of undefined becoming 209 Louis Albrechts THEME 3 MULTI-LEVEL GOVERNANCE, REGIONAL LAND POLICY, AND COMMONING 15 Regions and nations: frenemies – or just enemies? 227 Erica Schoenberger 16 (Not) always looking at the bright side of life: territorial social infrastructure and institutional innovation in fragile territories 242 Loris Servillo17 Planning without hybris: top-linked governance to empower bottom-linked initiatives 262 Andreas Novy and Nora Dornis 18 Land Policy: a path to interdisciplinary research on governance and commons 278 Xenia Katsigianni and Pieter Van den Broeck 19 Commoning education in spatial development analysis and planning 297 Pieter Van den Broeck, Xenia Katsigianni, Frank Moulaert, Carine Assaf, and Angeliki Paidakaki Afterword 318 Diana MacCallum

‘Struggles around land are one of the oldest and most enduring conflicts in human history. This timely and compelling book assembles state-of-the-art research and prominent scholars to explore the multidimensional issues at the heart of land-based conflicts. Key themes addressed in the book include: the commodification of land in different modes of capitalist development, the interplay of land use, nature conservation and public services, and the multilevel and participatory governance structures that are needed to fashion models of socio-ecological development that serve the interests of people and planet rather than private profit. This book will be essential reading for every discipline in the social sciences as well as for post-disciplinary students and scholars.’