In dealing with scarce land, planners often need to interact with, and sometimes confront, property right-holders to address complex property rights situations. To reinforce their position in situations of rivalrous land uses, planners can strategically use and combine different policy instruments in addition to standard land use plans. Effectively steering spatial development requires a keen understanding of these instruments of land policy.
This book not only presents how such instruments function, it additionally examines how public authorities strategically manage the scarcity of land, either increasing or decreasing it, to promote a more sparing use of resources. It presents 13 instruments of land policy in specific national contexts and discusses them from the perspectives of other countries. Through the use of concrete examples, the book reveals how instruments of land policy are used strategically in different policy contexts.
I Preface Foreword Preface II Introduction
1. Land, scarcity, and
property rights
2. Land policy how to deal with scarcity of land
3.
Instruments of land policy four types of intervention III REGULATING LAND
USES WITHOUT IMPACTING PROPERTY RIGHTS
4. Reference land values in Germany:
Land policy by market transparency
5. Added value capturing in Switzerland:
How much is enough?
6. Land taxation in Estonia: An efficient instrument of
land policy for land scarcity, equity, and ecology IV STEERING LAND USES
THROUGH REGULATION IMPACTING PROPERTY RIGHTS
7. Negotiated land use plans in
the Netherlands: A central instrument in Dutch active and passive land
policy
8. Urban growth boundary in the USA: Managing land scarcity in the
Portland region
9. Land readjustment in Portugal: Theoretically attractive
but eternally postponed in practice
10. Building obligations in Switzerland:
Overcoming the passivity of plan implementation V REDEFINING PROPERTY RIGHTS
TO STEER LAND USES
11. Pre-emption rights in France: Disputes over
pre-emptions and the land scarcity
12. Tradable development rights in the
US: Making zoning flexible through market mechanisms
13. Long-term land
leases in France: An instrument to address scarcity of social housing VI
REDISTRIBUTING PROPERTY RIGHTS TO STEER LAND USES
14. Strategic land banking
in the Netherlands: Experiencing Dutch dilemmas
15. Expropriation for urban
development purposes in German: Consider very carefully before using it
16.
Nationalization of land in Scotland: Private property and the public interest
VI Conclusion
17. Planning with or against property rights
Jean-David Gerber is Associate Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland (tenure track).
Thomas Hartmann is Associate Professor at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands.
Andreas Hengstermann is a PhD student at the Institute of Geography, Research Unit Urban and Regional Planning, University of Bern, Switzerland.
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