TY  - GEN
AU  - Evans, Alan W.
TI  - Economics and land use planning
SN  - 9781405118613
U1  - 333.7 
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Blackwell publishing
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface	xi
1	Introduction	1
What is planning?	1
Prediction or control	4
Professional or political?	7
What ought planning to be: an economic viewpoint	9
2	Market Failure and Welfare Economics - A Justification
for Intervention	13
Introduction	13
The analysis of external diseconomies	16
Politics and the distribution of welfare	20
3	Evaluation and Planning	23
Introduction	23
Cost-benefit analysis	24
The valuation of social costs and benefits	26
PBSA/CIA/CIE	29
Alternative non-economic approaches	31
Economic evaluation and political choice	34
4	Controlling the Density of Development	37
Introduction	37
Residential density controls	38
Control of office floor space	42
Conclusion	46
5	Zoning and Conservation	49
Introduction	49
Zoning	50
Heritage, historic districts and conservation	55
Conclusions	58
6	Green Belts, Growth Controls and Urban Growth Boundaries	59
Introduction	59
The economics of a green belt	60
Green belts in Britain	62
The green belt in South Korea	67
Growth controls and urban growth boundaries in the USA	69
Evaluation	72
Conclusions	73
7    Planning and the Land Market                                                                                      75
Introduction	75
Ricardian theory	76
An alternative (neoclassical) view	79
The supply of land for a particular use	82
Conclusions	87
8	The Division of the Spoils: Profits, Planning Gain, Premium
Seeking and Taxation	89
Introduction	89
A diagrammatic analysis	90
The beneficiaries	93
Planning gain, premium seeking and probability	103
Planning gain, premium seeking and welfare	108
Conclusions	110
9	Impact Fees	111
Introduction	111
Impact fees in theory and practice	112
Distributional effects	114
Impact fees in the United Kingdom	117
Developer contributions and environmental impact fees	119
Summary and conclusions	123
10	The Economic Consequences of Higher Land Values	125
Introduction	125
Land use policies and land prices	126
Adjustment in the housing market	131
Commercial and other uses	139
Factor price equalisation	143
Conclusions	145
11	The Macroeconomic Effects of Planning Constraints	147
Introduction	147
The elasticity of supply of housing and economic booms
and slumps	147
Housing land availability in Britain	150
The rate of saving and price of housing and property	153
Cities, growth and agglomeration economies	155
Competitiveness	158
Conclusions	160
12	Methods of Planning	163
Introduction	163
Controls and taxes	163
The degree of control of detail	170
The supply of land by government	176
Conclusions	180
13	Politics, Public Choice and Political Economy	183
Introduction	183
Economics, the regulator and the regulated	184
The farming industry and the rural population	186
Public participation, public choice	188
Economic welfare and the planning system	192
Sustainability	194
In conclusion	196
References	199
Index	207


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