New research and books

2012

• Community-driven disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in urban areas
• Whatever happened to Africa's Rapid Urbanisation?

2011

• Urban land markets in Zimbabwe and Lesotho: scoping studies
• Investigation into the delays in issuing title deeds to beneficiaries of housing projects funded by the capital subsidy
• Urban LandMark's land release assessment model applied in Western Cape and Gauteng case studies
• The 'living law' of land in Msinga, KwaZulu-Natal [2.33MB]
• Left behind: The impact of Zimbabwe's mass forced evictions on the right to education [867KB]
• South African Informal City Exhibition: 10 November 2011, Johannesburg [68KB]
• Losing your home: assessing the impact of eviction
• Tenement Cities: From 19th century Berlin to 21st century Nairobi
• Taking stock: the development of retail centres in 'emerging economy' areas in South Africa [1.23MB]
• Land Transactions in Social Housing in the Western Cape of South Africa: A Narrative of Kransdorp [218KB]
• Reducing poor southern African urban dwellers' vulnerability to climate change and disasters [0.98MB]
• A resource guide to housing in South Africa 1994 - 2010 [1.44MB]

2010

• DFID report highlights the twin challenges of poverty reduction and climate change in rapidly growing urban centres [3.39MB]
• State of African Cities Report
• Urban Land Markets: Economic concepts and tools for engaging in Africa
• Urban diversity: New book investigates space, culture, and inclusive pluralism in cities worldwide
• A Fractured Nation: Operation Murambatsvina - five years on [3.11MB]
• Investing Across Borders 2010: World Bank releases report on indicators of foreign direct investment regulation [3MB]
• Book: Urban Land Markets
• Book: Urban Diversity
• The City Statute of Brazil: A Commentary
• Book: The Struggle over Land in Africa

2009

• Knight Frank 2009 Africa Report [3.72MB]
• Building our Common Future [4.56MB]
• Capitalism beyond the crisis

2008

• Land reform in South Africa: Getting back on track [151KB]
• Inclusive Cities 2008
• Shack rentals in South Africa [1.09MB]
• 'Forgotten' Voices in the Present

2007

• Land: better access and secure rights for poor people
• Housing Demand, Tenure Choice and Housing
• Urban poverty and slums

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]

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
• Promoting the private sector by improving access to land [38KB]
• Land registration in Maputo and Matola cities, Mozambique [372KB]
• Study on land markets in urban and rural areas of Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR) [1.01MB]

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]
• Urban land market in Mozambique [264KB]

2003

• Informality, urban poverty and land market prices [44KB]

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