The question of land reloaded -- Who owns the earth? On the history of thought concerning land, resources, and the atmosphere as common goods / Werner Onken -- Henry George: the public value of land / Dirk Löhr -- Life without property: the "groundlessness" of anarchist settler movements / Manuela Kölke -- Who owns the city? Hans Bernoulli's political urban planning / Sylvia Claus -- The Italian job: the value of land in the years of the Italian economic miracle / Giovanni La Varra -- Hans-Jochen Vogel's program for a public right of disposal over land / Florian Hertweck -- From not-for-profit housing to financial market roulette / Franziska Eichstädt-Bohlig -- "Property states" and the financialization of urban development / Markus Hesse -- Land for post-growth / Christian Schulz -- The value of land / Laura Weißmüller -- Berlin architects Arno Brandlhuber and Christian Schöningh on options for addressing the land question -- ExRotaprint, Berlin -- Elisabeth Merk (Urban Planning Commissioner, Munich) and her predecessor Christiane Thalgott on Munich's model for socially just land use (SoBoN) -- Carolien Schippers (Head of Urban Development, Amsterdam) and Reinier de Graaf (partner at OMA) on the land question in the Netherlands and the ground lease system in Amsterdam -- The Homeruskwartier, Almere -- Martin Weis (Christoph Merian Stiftung, Basel) on the Swiss ground lease and dynamic urban development -- Klaus Hubmann (Stiftung Habitat, Basel) and Tanja Herdt (Metron planning firm) on the role foundations play in urban development and the Lysbüchel Süd project -- Lysbüchel Süd, Basel -- Anthony Engi Meacock (Assemble, London) on British ground leases, community land trusts, and Granby Four Streets in Liverpool -- Granby Four Streets, Liverpool -- Building a nation, the importance of public housing for Singaporean unity / Stefan Rettich -- Françoise Ged (Observatoire de Chine, Paris) and land-law expert Miguel Elousa on land policy in China -- L'Eixample / Ciudad lineal / Garden City / Une cité industrielle / Ville contemporaine / Broadacre City / Network City / Agronica / Freilandstadt -- Commons / The Medina of Casablanca / The Hirzbrunnenquartier in Basel / Control and choice / Housing development at Rupenhorn / Ökohäuser (Eco-Houses) Berlin / Social housing, Steinsel -- Wolkenbügel / L'Îlôt insalubre no. 6 / Trailer Tower / Habitat of the Future / Locomotiva 2 / Hängehochhaus / Federal Reserve Bank / Highrise of homes / Parking & more / Slab -- Sam Tanson (Minister of Housing) and Mike Mathias (member of the Council of State) about the question of land and housing in Luxembourg -- The architecture of the common ground, Luxembourg's contribution to the 16th Venice Biennale of Architecture / Florian Hertweck, Andrea Rumpf.
Summary:
"How we deal with land has far-reaching implications for architecture and urban development. The last decade has seen a dramatic rise in the privatization of urban land and in speculation. Many European cities that today find themselves under extreme development pressure have virtually no land left to build on. In view of the acute housing shortage, the issue of who owns the land is therefore more relevant than ever: To what extent are we able to treat the land as a common good and guard it from the excesses of capitalism? After a number of specialist journals have already addressed the land property issue, this book aims to dig deeper by providing a historical overview spanning an arc from Henry George to the present day. Interviews with stakeholders in global models provide insights into the current handling of the issue. The book presents outstanding projects based on either a legal or spatial distribution of land and thus makes a valuable contribution to the current discussion on sustainable land policy"--Publisher's website.
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