Links

Publications from other organisations

2009

• Knight Frank 2009 Africa Report [3.72MB] - summary of urban land market activity in commercial business districts in major African cities

2008

• Land reform in South Africa: Getting back on track [151KB] - Executive summary of 2008 report by the Centre for Development Enterprise
• Inclusive Cities 2008 - a South African Cities Network publication

2007

• Land: better access and secure rights for poor people - a DFID policy paper
• Housing Demand, Tenure Choice and Housing
• Urban poverty and slums - MDG factsheet

2006

• Brazil's Urban Land and Housing Markets: How Well are They Working?
• The Challenge of Connecting Informal and Formal Property Systems
• Workings of Township Residential Property Markets
• Swiss Human Rights Book Vol.1
• Land and property markets in Ghana [233KB] - discussion paper prepared by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

2005

• Land and Property Rights for African Development
• Land Reform in South Africa: a 21st Century Perspective, Centre for Development Enterprise
• Global Urban Poverty Research Agenda: The African Case
• Who owns South Africa: an analysis of state and private ownership patterns’ by Reg Rumney or download from www.hsrcpress.ac.za “State of the Nation: South Africa 2004-2005”, Chapter 15 “Who owns South Africa: an analysis of state and private ownership patterns” by Reg Rumney
• Promoting the private sector by improving access to land [38KB] - paper published by the Foreign Investment Advisory Service, a joint facility of the World Bank and International Finance Corporation
• Land registration in Maputo and Matola cities, Mozambique [372KB] - DFID-funded report compiled by the Land Studies Unit at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo
• Study on land markets in urban and rural areas of Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) [1.01MB] - report on GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) project in Lao PDR

2004

• Urban Land Markets and Urban Land Development: An Examination of Three Brazilian Cities: Brasília, Curitiba and Recife
• Legal pluralism as a policy option: Is it desirable, is it doable?
• Land Tenure and Administration in Africa: Lessons of Experience and Emerging Issues
• Do Property Titles Increase Credit Access Among the Urban Poor? Evidence from a Nationwide Titling - all 11 versions »
• Property rights, land markets and poverty in Namibia's 'extra-legal' settlements: An institutional approach [955KB] - article published in Global Urban Development magazine
• Urban land market in Mozambique [264KB] - paper on a 2004 study into the urban land market in Mozambique, by the Research Institute for Development

2003

• Informality, urban poverty and land market prices [44KB] - article published in Land Lines (magazine of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy)

2002

• Social Science Research Network: The Contestability of the Urban Land Market: An Event Study of Hong Kong Land Auctions
• Urban Land Markets, Residential Housing Development and the Urban Environment in Kampala, Lwasa Shuaib

2001

• Coping with Informal Land Management in Human Settlements-An Overview of the Status Quo

2000

• Inaugural Article: Institutional radicalization, the state, and ...
• Urban land tenure policy options: titles or rights? - all 5 versions »

Pre-2000

• UN-ESCAP Urban land policies for the uninitiated
• Urban Sprawl, Land Markets, and Market-oriented Approaches to Growth Management in Michigan
• The Role and Function of Urban Land Markets in Market Economies, David E. Dowall
• Research on public/private partnerships in urban land development

Newsletters and other resources

• Land Lines Newsletter, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
• Publications of the Institute Urban and Regional Development, University of California