Cities and private planning : property rights, entrepreneurship and transaction costs /


edited by David Emanuel Andersson, Stefano Moroni ; Nurit Alfasi [and seventeen others], contributors.
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books.
Medvirkende
Utgitt
Cheltenham : : Edward Elgar , 2014
Omfang
1 online resource (311 pages) : : illustrations
Opplysninger
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Cover; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; 1. Introduction: private enterprise and the future of urban planning; PART 1 Concepts and theories; 2. Cities and planning: the role of system constraints; 3. Towards a general theory of contractual communities: neither necessarily gated, nor a form of privatization; 4. Governance by voluntary association; 5. Private urban planning and free enterprise; 6. Community technology: liberating community development; 7. Planning by contract: two dialogues; PART 2 Case studies and policies. - 8. Modern cities: their role and their private planning roots9. Houston's land-use regime: a model for the nation; 10. Lessons from Gurgaon, India's private city; 11. The rise and fall of growth management in Florida; 12. The public planning of private planning: an analysis of controlled spontaneity in the Netherlands; 13. The challenge of regulating private planning initiatives; Name index; Subect index. - Through comprehensive case studies of privately planned cities and neighbourhood 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 understudied aspect of urban planning and re-evaluate conceptions of our urban future.
Emner
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Dewey
ISBN
978-1-78347-505-6

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