Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning

Michael Ball, Michael Edwards, Vincenzo Bentivegna, Marino Folin

List of Tables List of Figures Acknowledgements Part I: Editors Introduction 1. Modern Capitalism and the Theory of Urban Rent: A Review Part II: The Social Relations of Land Development: A European Perspective 2. Prices, Profits and Rents in Residential Development: France 1960-80 France 3. Housing Development Processes in Europe: Some Hypotheses from a Comparative Analysis 4. Land Rent and the Construction Industry 5. The Law of the Land: Property Rights and Town Planning in Modern Britain 6. Land, Capital and the British Coal Industry Prior to World War II Part III: The Debate Over Marx’s Theory of Rent 7. A Marxist Approach to Urban Ground Rent: The Case of France 8. Capitalist Urban Rent 9. Marxian Categories and the Determination of Land Prices Part IV: Political Implications 10. Theory of Urban Rent and the Working-Class Movement: The Case of Italy 11. Planning and the Land Market: Problems, Prospects and Strategy Select Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index