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Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions
Fall 2011
Topics
- Introduction
- The urban economics lens about urban land and housing
- Political and sociological lens about urban land and housing
- Legal theory lens about property rights
- Everyday property practices and public space
- Critical cartography and the unmasking of spatial relations
- Land titling and regularization
- Land trusts and affordable housing
- Land takings and compensation: How to make change, social cognition
Readings
- Alonso, William. Location and Land Use: Toward a General Theory of Land Rent . Harvard University Press, 1964. ISBN: 9780674537002. (classic exposition of urban land use theory).
- Bertaud, A., and B. Renaud. “Socialist Cities without Land Markets.” Journal of Urban Economics 41, no. 1 (1997): 137-51. (discusses how urban land development typically in centrally planned economies occurred in markedly different land use patterns from mono-centric market systems’ bid rent curve).
- Bertaud, Alain, and Stephen Malpezzi. “The Spatial Distribution of Population in 48 World Cities: Implications for Economies in Transition.” Working Paper, 2003.
- Glaeser, Edward L. “The Economic Approach to Cities.” Harvard University and NBER Working Paper, 2007.
- Hang, To Thi Thuy, et al. “Assessing the Socio-Economic and Environmental Impact of South Saigon Urban Development Project and Providing Recommendations for Redressing Environmental and Socio-Economic Consequences.” Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee’s Institute for Economic Research, 1997.
- Dear, Michael J., and Allen John Scott. “The Urban Process Under Capitalism: A Framework for Analysis.” In Urbanization and Urban Planning in Capitalist Society . Methuen, 1981, pp. 91-122. ISBN: 9780416746501.
- Marx, Karl. Chapters 32 and 33 in Capital (Volume 2). Penguin Classics, 1993. ISBN: 9780140445695.
- Pejovich, Steve. “Karl Marx, the Property Rights School and the Process of Social Change.” Kyklos 35, no. 3 (1982): 383-97.
- Weber, Rachel. “Extracting Value from the City: Neoliberalism and Urban Redevelopment.” Antipode (2002): 519-39.
- Ellickson, Robert C., Carol Marguerite Rose, and Bruce A. Ackerman. Perspectives on Property Law . Aspen Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 9780735528741.
- Goffman, Erving. “Culture and Human Nature.” In Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates . Garden City, NY: Anchor, 1961, pp. 18-21, and 244-54. ISBN: 9780385000161.
- Cronon, William. Chapters 4 and 5 in Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England . Hill and Wang, 1983. ISBN: 9780809001583.
- Locke, John. Chapter 5 in Second Treatise of Government , 2011. ISBN: 9781453754276. (one of the foundation readings on the philosophy behind private property rights)
- Hohfeld, Wesley Newcomb. Excerpts from Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning . Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 2010. ISBN: 9781584771623.
- Calabresi, Guido, and A. Douglas Melamed. “Property Rights, Liability Rules, and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral.” Harvard Law Review 85 (1972): 1089-128.
- Radin, M. J. “Property and Personhood.” Stanford Law Review 34 (1982): 957-73, 977-9, and 1002-6.
- Hardin, Garrett. “Tragedy of the Commons.” Science 162 (1968): 1243-8.
- Blackstone, William. “Commentaries on the Laws of England.” In Commentaries on the Laws of England . Vol. 2. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979, pp. 2-11. ISBN: 9780226055381.
- Merrill, Thomas W., and Henry E. Smith. “What Happened to Property in Law and Economics.” The Yale Law Journal 111, no. 2 (2001): 357-98.
- Cole, D. H., and P. Z. Grossman. “The Meaning of Property “Rights”: Law versus Economics?” Land Economics 78, no. 3 (2002): 317-30.
- Ostrom, Elinor. Chapter 1 in Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institution for Collective Action . Cambridge University Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780521405997.
- Chase, John, Margaret Crawford, and John Kaliski. Everyday Urbanism: Expanded . New York, NY: Monacelli, 2008, pp. 22-35, and 88-109. ISBN: 9781580932011.
- Hess, Paul. “Walkability in Torontoʼs Apartment Neighbourhoods: Preliminary Report on Scarborough Village Walkability Workshop.” Toronto: Department of Geography and Programme in Planning, University of Toronto, 2009.
- Blomley, Nicholas. Rights of Passage: Sidewalks and the Regulation of Public Flow . New York: Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 9780415575614
- Dear, Michael J. “Taking Los Angeles Seriously.” In The Postmodern Urban Condition . Malden: Blackwell, 2001, pp. 10-24. ISBN: 9780631209881.
- Hess, Paul. “Avenues or Arterials: The Struggle to Change Street Building Practices in Toronto, Canada.” Journal of Urban Design 14, no. 1 (2009): 1-28.
- de Certeau, M. “Walking in the City.” In The Practice of Everyday Life . Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780520236998.
- LeFebvre, H. Chapter 1 in The Production of Space . New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 1992. ISBN: 9780631181774.
- Kim, Annette M. Chapter 5 in Sidewalk City: Remapping the Public and Space in Ho Chi Minh City. University of Chicago Press. Publication forthcoming.
- Crampton, Jeremy W. “Maps as Social Constructions: Power, Communication and Visualization.” Progress in Human Geography 25, no. 2 (2001): 235-52.
- Paglan, Trevor. “Mapping Ghosts.” In An Atlas of Radical Cartography. Edited by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat. Los Angeles: Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2008, pp. 38-50. ISBN: 9780979137723.
- Kwan, Mei-Po. “Affecting Geospatial Technologies: Toward a Feminist Politics of Emotion.” The Professional Geographer 59, no. 1 (2007): 22-34.
- Varley, J. B. “Deconstructing the Map.” In Spaces of Postmodernity: Readings in Human Geography . Edited by Michael Dear and Steven Flusty. Malden: Blackwell, 2002, pp. 277-89. ISBN: 9780631217824.
- Sassen, Saskia. “The City: Between Topographic Representation and Spatialized Power Projects.” Art Journal 60, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 12.
- Soto, Hernando de. The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else . New York: Basic Books, 2000. Chapters 3 and 6. ISBN: 9780465016143.
- “The Challenge of Scale–Nationwide Upgrading.” Cities Alliance Annual Report, 2003.
- Field, Erica. “Property Rights and Investment in Urban Slums.” Journal of the European Economic Association 3, no. 2-3 (2005): 279-90. (statistical analysis of a natural experiment situation of titling in Peru)
- Firmin-Sellers, Kathryn, and Patrick Sellers. “Expected Failures and Unexpected Successes of Land Titling in Africa.” World Development 27, no. 7 (1999): 1115-28.
- Home, Robert, and Hilary Lim. “Outside de Sotoʼs Bell Jar: Colonial/Postcolonial Land Law and the Exclusion of the Peri-urban Poor.” In Demystifying the Mystery of Capital . Routledge-Cavendish, 2004, pp. 11-30. ISBN: 9781904385134.
- Payne, Geoffrey. “Urban Land Tenure Policy Options: Titles or Rights?” Habitat International 25, no. 3 (2001): 415-29.
- UN Habitat. “Guidelines on how to undertake a National Campaign for Secure Tenure.” 2003.
- Yahya, Saad S. “Community Land Trusts and Other Tenure Innovations in Kenya.” In Land, Rights and Innovation: Improving Tenure Security for the Urban Poor (Urban Management Series) . Edited by Geoffery K. Payne. London: ITDG Publishing, 2002, pp. 233-63. ISBN:9781853395444.
- Kim, Annette M. Learning to be Capitalists: Entrepreneurs in Vietnamʼs Transition Economy . Oxford University Press, 2008. Chapter 1. ISBN: 9780195369397.
- Mayer, Margit. “‘The Right to the City’ in the Context of Shifting Mottos or Urban Social Movements.” City 13, no. 2-3 (2009): 362-74.
- Merrill, Thomas W. “Introduction: The Demsetz Thesis and the Evolution of Property Rights.” Journal of Legal Studies 31, no. 2 (2002): 331-9.
- Rose, Carol. “Crystals and Mud in Property Law.” Stanford Law Review 40 (1988): 577-90, and 96-604. (Gives some history and a pendulum framework for why property laws change).
- Thelen, Kathleen. “Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Politics.” Annual Review of Political Science 2 (1999): 369-404.
Sources
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