Urbanisation trends and urban land development in Zimbabwe

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Zvikomborero Denzel Mwashita ◽  
Chipo Mutonhodza
Keyword(s):  
Land Development ◽  
Urban Land

Appropriating rent from greenfield affordable housing: developer practices in Johannesburg

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-361
Author(s):  
Siân Butcher
Keyword(s):  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Active Role ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
The State ◽  
Land Rent ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Personal Connections ◽  
Monopoly Rents ◽  
Rent Theory

‘Affordable housing’ for Johannesburg’s growing middle class is a developmentalist imperative and potentially lucrative market. However, few greenfield developers have found this market profitable. Fundamental to those who have, is control over land and its development. This paper puts heterodox urban land rent theory to work vis-à-vis the logics and practices of these developers. I illustrate how greenfield affordable housing developers work to (re)produce differential and monopoly rents in this context. Differential rents rely on investing in cheap land produced through the city’s racialised geography, and controlling land’s development through vertical integration, dynamic negotiations with local government and development finance institutions, and steering money and people into developments. Monopoly rents rely on the power of developers to act together as a class to secure land, give the appearance of competition and lobby the state in their interests. This power is built through racialised control over land and long personal connections. It is also consolidated by the state’s own land development bureaucracy and preference for ‘mega’ developments and recognisable developers. Together, these developer strategies to accrue differential and monopoly rents demonstrate their active role in the everyday making of land and housing markets. They also demand extensions of heterodox urban land rent theory: first, a more articulated understanding of how class monopoly power over land is built through race, and second, a more contingent analysis of capital’s relations to other actors and institutions, especially the state.

Using Spatial Statistics to Examine the Pattern of Urban Land Development in Halifax–Dartmouth

2002 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 521-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela L. Cuthbert ◽  
William P. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Statistics ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Urban Land

scholarly journals Land Use Simulation of Guangzhou Based on Nighttime Light Data and Planning Policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1675
Author(s):  
Jieying Lao ◽  
Cheng Wang ◽  
Jinliang Wang ◽  
Feifei Pan ◽  
Xiaohuan Xi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Infrared Imaging ◽  
Land Development ◽  
Urban Land ◽  
Scientific Basis ◽  
Land Use Patterns ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Development Trajectory ◽  
Nighttime Light ◽  
Planning Policies

With the implementation processes of strategies such as Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area’s coordinated development and “Belt and Road Initiative” initiative, the planning policies had produced a significant influence on land use distributions in Guangzhou. In this paper, we employ nighttime light (NTL) information as a proxy indicator of gross domestic product(GDP), and a future land use simulation model (FLUS) to simulate the land use patterns in Guangzhou from 2015 to 2018 and 2018 to 2035 by incorporating planning policies. The results show that: (1) the accuracy of simulation result from 2015 to 2018 based on National Polar-orbiting Partnership, Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (NPP/VIIRS) is higher than that based on GDP; (2) by incorporating planning policies into the model can better identify the potential spatial distribution of urban land and make the simulated results more consistent with the actual urban land development trajectory. This study demonstrates that NTL is a suitable and feasible proxy indicator of GDP for the land use simulations, providing a scientific basis for the development of urban planning and construction policy.

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