Property rights and the production of the urban built environment – Evidence from a Zambian city

Munshifwa, Ephraim Kabunda; Mooya, Manya M.

doi:10.1016/j.habitatint.2015.10.005

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“…The second or consolidation stage saw a rapid expansion of land coverage and buildings, as the undeterred settlers adapted through a mix of social norms and borrowed statutory rules. The settlement ultimately received official approval, and the third stage (maturity) saw intensified construction and house completions, an informal local governance structure, documentation of property rights, and the beginnings of health and other social facilities [144,145].…”

Section: Below the State Level: Local Government Public Awareness And Participation For Meeting Basic Needsmentioning

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History and Prospects for African Land Governance: Institutions, Technology and ‘Land Rights for All’

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Issues relating to land are specifically referred to in five of the United Nations’ (UN) 17 Sustainable Development Goals, and UN-Habitat’s Global Land Tools Network views access to land and tenure security as key to achieving sustainable, inclusive and efficient cities. The African continent is growing in importance, with climate change and population pressure on land. This review explores an interdisciplinary approach, and identifies recent advances in geo-spatial technology relevant to land governance in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). It discusses historical legacies of colonialism that affect the culture of its land administration institutions, through three levels of governance: international/regional, national and sub-national. Short narratives on land law are discussed for four Anglophone former British colonies of SSA. A wide range of sources are drawn upon: academic research across disciplines, and official publications of various actors, including land professions (particularly surveyors, lawyers and planners), government and wider society. The findings are that African countries have carried forward colonial land governance structures into the post-independence political settlement, and that a gulf exists between the institutions, language and cultures of land governance, and the mass of its peoples struggling with basic issues of survival. This gulf may be addressed by recent approaches to land administration and technological advances in geo-spatial technology, and by new knowledge networks and interactions.

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“…The first two questions were tackled in Munshifwa and Mooya (2016). This paper hypothesises that situations of extra-legal property rights require facilitative State mechanisms in the production of the urban built environment.…”

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Institutions, organisations and the urban built environment: Facilitative interaction as a developmental mechanism in extra-legal settlements in Zambia

Munshifwa

Mooya

2016

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“…1 In scrutinizing the related literature on the basis of the degree of attention paid to the role of transaction costs in informality, three areas of research are discernible: property rights, land markets, and land development. The first is the subject of interest in a stream of studies on the creation (Alston et al, 1995;, classification (Lai, 2015;Webster et al, 2016), and effects (Munshifwa and Mooya, 2016) of property rights. Although property rights and transaction costs are interrelated concepts in NIE, however, the latter have not been the focal point in this type of research.…”

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Illuminating the formal–informal dichotomy in land development on the basis of transaction cost theory

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Jalali

2018

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Transaction cost theory is largely used to investigate the formal domain of land and housing. In the informal domain, however, this perspective has been employed largely as a supplement in addressing the other fundamental notion in new institutional economics—property rights—despite the possibility that informality in land development can emerge regardless of the informality or formality of such rights. To cover this gap, this study developed a theoretical framework based on transaction cost theory to explain the formal–informal dichotomy in land development. The proposed framework maintains that land development depends on engaging in transactions that involve total or partial ownership of a combination of capital and land through lease and/or sale contracts, which enable landowners to earn from the new rental prices produced by the increase in land prices. Landowners are afforded two avenues from which to reduce transaction costs, namely, formal and informal institutional frameworks, each defining and enforcing restrictive rules on agents’ actions. These avenues, however, are simultaneously a source of new transaction costs that can affect the expected financial return of land development. Landowners therefore tend to choose the institutional framework that entails lower transaction costs but enables higher gains. Thus, the higher transaction costs associated with a formal institutional framework are the primary deterrents to the selection of this structure. In turn, informal land development continues to expand, regardless of the existence of formal prohibitive measures. We investigated the formal–informal dichotomy in the rural land development process in Tehran Province, Iran. The results indicated that transaction costs cause inefficiency in formal institutions, thereby driving the perpetuation of informal development.

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Property rights and the production of the urban built environment – Evidence from a Zambian city

Cited by 11 publications

References 20 publications

History and Prospects for African Land Governance: Institutions, Technology and ‘Land Rights for All’

History and Prospects for African Land Governance: Institutions, Technology and ‘Land Rights for All’

Institutions, organisations and the urban built environment: Facilitative interaction as a developmental mechanism in extra-legal settlements in Zambia

Illuminating the formal–informal dichotomy in land development on the basis of transaction cost theory

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