Publisher's Synopsis
This book provides an up-to-date, broad and critical review of the literature on urban land supply in the Third World. It deals with land supply systems as well as with policies and the experience with implementation of such policies. It criticizes much present thinking on urban land issues; attempts to find ways out of a current impasse in research which is divided into two schools applying either sociological/anthropological, or economic points of view; and reviews innovative policies to overcome some of the problems encountered in the application of traditional instruments of land policy.
