Book Review: Private Property and Public Power: Eminent Domain in Philadelphia

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
Marcus Anthony Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Eminent Domain ◽  
Public Power

Debbie Becher: Private property and public power: eminent domain in Philadelphia

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 387-389
Author(s):  
Willem K. Korthals Altes
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Eminent Domain ◽  
Public Power

Private Property and Public Power: Eminent Domain in Philadelphia

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 142-143
Author(s):  
Laura R. Ford
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Eminent Domain ◽  
Public Power

scholarly journals The New Control of Territory and Urban Planning: the Eminent Domain in the US

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
Sonia Paone
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Cost Benefit Analysis ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
The United States ◽  
Eminent Domain ◽  
Public Utility ◽  
Transfer Property ◽  
The Us ◽  
Us Supreme Court ◽  
The City

The article analyses the transformations of the use of eminent domain in the United States in the context of urban redevelopment programs. In the past the private property has been expropriated for public use only. Recently it is possible to forcibly transfer property, from a private subject to private developers, on the basis of a cost-benefit analysis that demonstrates that the new use is more efficient than the previous one. This profound change has been possible thanks to a progressive modification of the concept of public use. Traditionally, public use coincided with the construction of infrastructures and public utility, such as highways and railroads. Over the time, it has come to include other aims: firstly, projects of urban renewal and economic development carried forth by private developers. Essentially, it has resulted in the use of expropriation to assemble lands which are then granted to subjects who intervene in the reconfiguration of the city for private purposes. Starting from some important examples of urban development, the main phases of this process are reconstructed, also taking into account the most important decisions of the US Supreme Court that contributed to the change of doctrine, invalidating the postulate of public use as justification for expropriation.

Private Property and Public Power

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Becher
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Public Power

Book Review - Generating Failure: Public Power Policy in the Northwest

1990 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Bradley, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Public Power

The Economics of Eminent Domain: Private Property, Public Use, and Just Compensation

2006 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 275-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Miceli ◽  
Kathleen Segerson
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Eminent Domain ◽  
Just Compensation
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