Urban Land and Housing Issues Facing the Third World

Brennan, Ellen M.

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“…The lack of security of land tenure could be a hindrance to urban land markets' effective functioning (Brennan, 1993;McAuslan, 2000). While legislating on land tenure could increase the supply of land in urban areas, many cities in the developing world experience difficulties in doing so, especially with regard to cost recovery (pp.…”

Section: Theoretical Context and A Brief Overview Of Urban Land Develmentioning

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“…Meanwhile, Tanzania faces problems of slow progress in planned land development, inequity and partiality in land administration, as well as high levels of bureaucracy at all levels of the land development process, a proliferation of unplanned areas, and the commoditisation of land (Kironde, 1997, p. 99). Brennan (1993) maintains that market mechanisms alone are unlikely to create an efficient urban land allocation, and therefore intervention is necessary with respect to regulations, administration and planning to assist market mechanisms to function effectively (pp. 77-78).…”

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Major issues in Indonesia's urban land development

Firman

2004

Land Use Policy

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Section: Theoretical Context and A Brief Overview Of Urban Land Develmentioning

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Major issues in Indonesia's urban land development

Firman

2004

Land Use Policy

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“…These phenomena, however, are often seen as a mainly endogenous trend of increasing commercialization of land in the cities of the Third World (cf. Brennan, 1993;Kothari, 1994;Yeung, 1991) and have not been examined in the context of interrelated global and domestic rapid flows of capital investments in the property sector.…”

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“…Even in developed countries, where states have a stronger professional tradition and more administrative capacity for land regulation and urban planning, serious regard for social equity in urban property development projects has been problematic (Fanstein, 1991(Fanstein, , 1994Feagin, 1990). For developing country cities, the literature suggests that, historically, local governments have little to show in terms of providing public land for housing or regulating land use to secure adequate space for urban poor housing development (Brennan, 1993;Hardoy and Satterthwaite, 1989;Pugh, 1997: 153; for Southeast Asian capital cities, see Linn, 1987;Ruland, 1996).…”

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Globalization and the Urban Property Boom in Metro Cebu, Philippines

Sajor¹

2003

Development and Change

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The hyper mobility of capital and the associated growth of international investment in real estate which occurred across the world in the late twentieth century, led to bursts of property development and market booms. This article examines how this global trend interfaced with local processes in the setting of a secondary metropolis of a developing country, in Metro Cebu, Philippines, and resulted in a property-led development dominated by production of high-end residential real estate commodities, the rise of a speculative land market, and a highly regressive spatial allocation. It is argued that this regressive outcome was mediated by a weak state, controlled and dominated by predatory and rent-seeking bosses who, in Cebu in particular, are not simply representatives of the local oligarchy but are big real estate developers and brokers themselves. During the boom period, neither the middle classes, whose members were also attracted to speculative property buying, nor the low-income and urban poor groups, who were largely hoodwinked by official rhetoric of social housing reform and by token participation, provided any significant social force to constrain the opportunism and rent-seeking of these bosses or to challenge the pro-growth governing agenda.

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“…In fact it would appear that the two variables, supply and ownership style, are statistically independent. To be sure, land supply problems are as severe in cities such as Karachi and Delhi, where much of the land is in public hands, as in cities such as Bangkok, Manila and Seoul where the private ownership of land is commonplace (Brennan, 1993).…”

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The Political Economy of Urban Land Reforms in a Post‐Colonial State

Njoh

1998

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This paper investigates the rationale for land law reforms as well as their implications for different societal groups in Cameroon. It is revealed that the rationale - that is, to place as much land as possible in state hands - has remained unchanged since the colonial era. The study further shows that the land law reforms have always been skewed in favour of political and bureaucratic elites, entrepreneurs and the salariat at the expense of women in the informal sector, ethnic minorities and the poor. Thus, a potent consequence of land law reforms in Cameroon is that they have effectively accentuated socio-economic inequities characteristic of the country. To remedy these problems, it is recommended that authorities seek to create some fit between the 'modern' land tenure system and the traditions, culture and beliefs of the Cameroonian society. Additionally, it is recommended that serious efforts be made to institute programmes designed to redistribute income and improve the performance of the bureaucratic machinery, particularly the institutional framework for land policy administration. Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1998.

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Urban Land and Housing Issues Facing the Third World

Cited by 16 publications

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Major issues in Indonesia's urban land development

Major issues in Indonesia's urban land development

Globalization and the Urban Property Boom in Metro Cebu, Philippines

The Political Economy of Urban Land Reforms in a Post‐Colonial State

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