Tag: Planning

Given the imminent release of my new book ‘The Economics of Property and Planning’, here is some text on the book’s relevance and importance. Both

Read MoreNew Book – The Economics of Property and Planning: Relevance and Importance

It is quite widely thought that the role of infrastructure, particularly transport, is one useful way to understand the history of places. Particularly by looking

Read MoreTransport and Infrastructure Economics in Property and Planning

For economics in property, the legal real property consideration of justice resonates in economics and the economy. Early writers on justice such as  Paine (1797)

Read MoreOn Justice in Property and Planning – Normative Economics in Action

Stable prices are a macroeconomic consideration for nations and the places contained within their boundaries. For places, changes in inflation or changes in the prices

Read MoreMaking clear the inflation question – what does this mean for planning ‘property’?

Brownfield sites can generate negative externality on real estate value, profit, and productivity. The use and development of brownfield sites are perceived to be risky

Read MoreBrownfield Development: Some Historical Context, Barriers, and Issues

The contribution of financialization discourse to capital and inequality is particularly interesting to economics in property and planning. Epstein’s (2005) ‘Financialization and The World Economy’

Read MoreFinancialization in Property and Planning

For major project feasibility and decision making, if cost and benefit items have been identified and valued, the net difference of costs and benefits need

Read MoreWhy does the value of money erode? Human Nature, Time, and Discounting

Private rental property owners do not have a moral obligation to provide houses to anyone, including vulnerable tenants, the New Zealand Property Investors Federation says.

Read MoreProperty investors and ‘moral obligation’

Private housing infrastructure funding charges might be the best way to speed up development and boost housing supply, a property academic says. House prices increased

Read MorePrivate infrastructure charges ‘the answer to boost housing supply’

And what a book.

Textbook outlining the history and development of urban and regional planning

Now a decade on since the third edition. A really great theory-practice book at the nexus of urban planning and real estate development.

Rebalancing historical, spatial, and social considerations in the production of space. Further real and imagined dimensions are used to build a new theoretical urban frame.

Popularising the ‘Edge City’ term for growing development of commercial hub activity outside of the urban core.

Text that provides a history of urban planning in addition to some of the social and economic problems that underpin its theory and practice.

Book that energised the garden city movement as a utopian desire to live in harmony with nature

Exploring and supporting the movement for more walkable cities given the modern historical influence of the car.

Recent accessible and interesting overview on why cities are enriching places for people

A book that exerts post-modern urban planning as one that includes diversity, community and environment.