The aim of this book, first published in 1977, is to use the tools developed by modern microeconomics to provide a framework for the analysis of policies towards the allocation of land and the control of activities using land. The principle focus of the book is the general justification for intervention in the urban land and property markets, the principles for evaluating such intervention and the proper role of the public sector within the urban economy. It also considers in some detail the practical problems involved in putting these principles into effect.
Part 1: Basic Economic Concepts;
1. Introduction
2. Individuals, Firms,
Markets
3. Markets in a Spatial Context: A Simple Urban Economy
4. Market
Failure
5. The Role of the Planning Authority
6. Managing Markets
7. The
Effects and Limits of Intervention in the Urban Economy
8. The Allocation of
Resources in the Public Sector
9. Pricing in the Public Sector; Part 2:
Analysing the Effects of Policies;
10. Land-Use Controls and Economic
Activity
11. Land-Use Controls and Housing
12. Transport
13. The Arrangement
of Land Uses; Bibliography; Index
A. J. Harrison
