Planning – Professor Graham Squires

New Book – The Economics of Property and Planning: Relevance and Importance

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

Transport and Infrastructure Economics in Property and Planning

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

On Justice in Property and Planning – Normative Economics in Action

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)

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

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

Brownfield Development: Some Historical Context, Barriers, and Issues

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

Financialization and Property

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

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

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