1st Edition
Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning A European Perspective
Originally published in 1985, Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning looks at the crucial social relationships associated with land ownership, and how these have played a crucial role in the economic development of many societies. The understanding of these relationships within modern capitalist societies has proved difficult. Land ownership relations emerge as requiring specific historical analysis for specific periods and societies and as being integral aspects of the capitalist mode of production as a whole – not merely mechanisms which redistribute some independently-determined surplus.
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Part I: Editors Introduction
1. Modern Capitalism and the Theory of Urban Rent: A Review
Part II: The Social Relations of Land Development: A European Perspective
2. Prices, Profits and Rents in Residential Development: France 1960-80 France, Christian Topalov
3. Housing Development Processes in Europe: Some Hypotheses from a Comparative Analysis, Marino Folin
4. Land Rent and the Construction Industry, Michael Ball
5. The Law of the Land: Property Rights and Town Planning in Modern Britain, Michael McMahon
6. Land, Capital and the British Coal Industry Prior to World War II, Ben Fine
Part III: The Debate Over Marx’s Theory of Rent
7. A Marxist Approach to Urban Ground Rent: The Case of France, Alain Lipietz
8. Capitalist Urban Rent, Ambroise Gravejat
9. Marxian Categories and the Determination of Land Prices, Agostino Nardocci
Part IV: Political Implications
10. Theory of Urban Rent and the Working-Class Movement: The Case of Italy, Vincenzo Bentivegna
11. Planning and the Land Market: Problems, Prospects and Strategy, Michael Edwards
Select Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Biography
Michael Ball, Michael Edwards, Vincenzo Bentivegna, Marino Folin
