Publicaciones

Mayo 1997, inglés

Growing recognition of the economic and social importance of land, housing and real property markets is focusing attention on the need for good policies and good data to monitor the performance of these markets and their effects on the international economy. Much of the impetus for addressing these issues came with the United Nations General […]

Mayo 1997, inglés

The March 1997 Land Lines article on “Urban Land as Common Property” omitted a key reference to geographer Rutherford H. Platt’s co-edited book, The Ecological City: Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity (University of Massachusetts Press, 1994; also see July 1994 Land Lines ). Platt pioneered the idea of seeing abandoned or neglected urban open spaces […]

Mayo 1997, inglés

Land and housing markets, and any other market for that matter, can be approached as arenas in which persons exchange rights to assets subject to constitutional rules, statutory and common law rules, and administrative rules and procedures. The value of land is often believed to be determined by expectations about what land uses will be […]

Mayo 1997, inglés

Marzo 1997, inglés

In recent years, politicians, lobbyists and voters in the United States have often seemed polarized—or paralyzed—over where to draw the line between private and public rights in land. Common property, defined as group- or community-owned private property, straddles that line. Most recognized common property is in natural resources, and most recognized commoners are rural people […]

Marzo 1997, inglés