Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning
A European Perspective
Routledge Library Editions: Urban Planning Series

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 3. Housing Development Processes in Europe: Some Hypotheses from a Comparative Analysis 4. Land Rent and the Construction Industry 5. The Law of the Land: Property Rights and Town Planning in Modern Britain 6. Land, Capital and the British Coal Industry Prior to World War II Part III: The Debate Over Marx’s Theory of Rent 7. A Marxist Approach to Urban Ground Rent: The Case of France 8. Capitalist Urban Rent 9. Marxian Categories and the Determination of Land Prices Part IV: Political Implications 10. Theory of Urban Rent and the Working-Class Movement: The Case of Italy 11. Planning and the Land Market: Problems, Prospects and Strategy Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index