Urban land question. Planning, property and (In) security of tenure under the empire of finance
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2016
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The practice - which includes urban codes and regulations associated with investments on urban expansion or renewal - is strongly embedded in the liberal thinking prevalent at its birth, a model of socio-political organization where property, rights and citizenship are interweaved .
Private property of land, connected with land appropriation and allocation only through market transactions inscribed within certain contractual rules, which are the forms through which land rent can be extracted and a fundamental element of the capitalist accumulation regime – also have an essential political dimension. According to Polanyi, the freedom of commercializing properties, especially land properties, constitutes an essential part of individual freedom, which is the basis for individual citizenship rights.
However, since than, and still now, land and tenure regimes and modes of creating cities and territories are rather multiple, generating not just one, but several forms of production, appropriation and allocation of space. Planning has never fulfilled its utopia of total order and control of cities, neither the total transformation and submission of tenure regimes to one and only mode of allocating and transforming space.
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Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south
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