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Globalisation has generated remarkable effects on the public administration (PAs). Today, PAs play a decisive role in urban redevelopment and transformation. Since public administrators are the decision-makers and project-planners, they influence project feasibility from many viewpoints (architectural, environmental, economic-financial). In such a competitive system, typical of the global market, the aspects related to efficiency of Public Administrations' licence-issuing procedures plays a key role for the realization of a property investment. The Paper deals with this topic by showing a survey's results which -since 2008 -involved the main Italian Local Public Administration and which analyzed processes and actions put in place to promote the attraction of real estate investments.

At this time Russia along with other countries formed in the territory of the former Soviet Union is undergoing the difficult transition from socialism which negated market-based relations to a system built on these very relations. This report describes specific aspects of this transition with respect to land-use legislation an town-planning. First of all, one should understand that until recently Russia had no land-use legislation and did not need such legislation. The reasons for this seemingly paradoxical situation are simple. For a long time all land was owned by the state. A solitary owner does not need laws, because these laws regulate the relations of different and equal parties. The state acted as one "supreme" ruler and thus relations in connection with land use had t he nature of orders and subordination. This arrangement did not need any laws and was based solely on administrative command methods. Decisions took the form of multiple government resolutions, departmental instructions, norms and orders but not a single law on land use was in place.

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