Table of Contents

1. Land-use Planning and Property Rights: A Fraught Relationship 2. Two Ways in which Laws can Influence How Land is Used 3. The Legal Language: Rights in Land 4. The Economic Language: Making a Good Use of Scarce Resources 5. An Evaluation of Property Law: Rules under Public Law 6. An Evaluation of Property Law: Rules Under Private Law 7. Application: Achieving Neighbourhood Quality 8. Application: Regional Land-use Planning 9. Conclusions: The Rules we Make for Using Land

About the Author

Nijmegen School of Management, The Netherlands

Reviews

'Needham's book is a very well argued riposte to those who would argue that planning controls are unnecessary...' - Alan Evans, University of Reading (2008)