Cities and Private Planning
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Cities and Private Planning

Property Rights, Entrepreneurship and Transaction Costs

9781783475056 Edward Elgar Publishing
Edited by David Emanuel Andersson, IBMBA Program, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan and Stefano Moroni, Professor of Planning, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Publication Date: November 2014 ISBN: 978 1 78347 505 6 Extent: 320 pp
Through comprehensive case studies of privately planned cities and neighbourhood in Asia, Europe and North America, this book characterizes the theoretical basis and empirical manifestations of private urban planning. In this innovative volume, Andersson and Moroni develop an under-studied aspect of urban planning and re-evaluate conceptions of our urban future.

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Through comprehensive case studies of privately planned cities and neighbourhood in Asia, Europe and North America, this book characterizes the theoretical basis and empirical manifestations of private urban planning. In this innovative volume, Andersson and Moroni develop an under-studied aspect of urban planning and re-evaluate conceptions of our urban future.

Urban planning is often construed only as a form of public planning. This misinterpretation is revealed through an empirical focus on how cities have been planned in the past and how the capacity of private actors will shape planning in the future. Private planning is responsible for most small-scale infill developments, ranging from single-family housing to hotels. However, examples of non-governmental actors that plan larger areas, such as homeowners'' associations in the United States and private cities in India, are becoming manifest. Private urban planners are guided by price signals to supply infrastructure and regulations that make land more valuable. Using analytical tools from theoretical traditions such as Austrian and new institutional economics, the contributors to this book eschew the mainstream assumptions that underlie much of the critique of profit-seeking entrepreneurship among urban planners, sociologists and geographers.

This volume will be invaluable for urban planners. Economists in a variety of fields will also be interested in the diverse application of economic theory, including applied urban economists, Austrian economists, new institutional economists and public choice economists.
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‘This is a wonderfully subversive book that should be essential reading for all students of urban planning. Cities evolve under the influence of multiple individual land development plans. Coordination between these can happen to varying degrees, at various spatial scales, under the leadership of different organisations and through multiple mechanisms. Planning education and practice has by and large missed this point for over half a century. We need a new knowledge-base for city-shaping in the 21st century and this book lays some of the essential foundations.’
– Chris Webster, University of Hong Kong

‘Not so very long ago the notion of private city planning would have been of interest to only a few die-hard libertarians. This book shows why no serious analysis of the forces shaping cities across the world today can neglect the role of private planning and the potential it might have to deliver more live-able urban places.’
– Mark Pennington, King’s College, University of London, UK

‘Overall, the volume is well deserving of the attention of those interested in non-market decision making, especially political decision making. . . Ultimately the volume is accessible, and undoubtedly will be valuable, both to those engaging the subject for the first time, and those who are already familiar with the literature. Those working in the area of private governance will find these essays valuable as a foundation upon which to conduct future research.’
– Alexander William Salter, Public Choice
Contributors
Contributors: N. Alfasi, D.E. Andersson, W.E. Block, E. Buitelaar, W. Cox, F.E. Foldvary, M. Galle, P. Gordon, R.G. Holcombe, L.W-C. Lai, A. Lowi, S. MacCallum, T. Margalit, S. Moroni, R. O’Toole, S. Rajagopalan, N. Sorel, A. Tabarrok



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Contents:

1. Private Enterprise and the Future of Urban Planning
Stefano Moroni and David Emanuel Andersson

PART 1: CONCEPTS AND THEORIES
2. Cities and Planning: The Role of System Constraints
David Emanuel Andersson

3. Towards a General Theory of Contractual Communities: Neither Necessarily Gated, nor a Form of Privatization
Stefano Moroni

4. Governance by Voluntary Association
Fred E. Foldvary

5. Private Urban Planning and Free Enterprise
Walter E. Block

6. Community Technology: Liberating Community Development
Alvin Lowi and Spencer MacCallum

7. Planning by Contract: Two Dialogues
Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai

PART II: CASE STUDIES AND POLICIES
8. Modern Cities: Their Role and Their Private Planning Roots
Peter Gordon and Wendell Cox

9. Houston’s Land-Use Regime: A Model for the Nation
Randal O’Toole

10. Lessons from Gurgaon, India’s Private City
Shruti Rajagopalan and Alexander Tabarrok

11. The Rise and Fall of Growth Management in Florida
Randall G. Holcombe

12. The Public Planning of Private Planning: An Analysis of Controlled Spontaneity in the Netherlands
Edwin Buitelaar, Maaike Galle and Niels Sorel

13. The Challenge of Regulating Private Planning Initiatives
Nurit Alfasi and Talia Margalit

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