The Legal and Political Geography of Pluralism
Pluralism – and the connected questions of toleration – is today a crucial theoretical and practical problem in need of …
Tag: urban planning
Criminal accumulation by dispossession
The paper discusses the infiltration of mafia-type organised crime groups (OCGs) in property development, with a particular focus on peripheral …
The illicit side of urban development
The paper deals with issues of corruption in the planning domain. It centres on thorough analysis of the case of …
Inverse Planning in the Cracks of Formal Land Use Regulation
This paper focuses on a case of ‘non-public planning’ in an informal neighbourhood of Maputo, Mozambique. Here, several residents undertook …
The transfer of development rights in the midst of the economic crisis
The paper deals with the transfer of development rights (TDR) in Italy. It presents a comparative analysis of the TDR …
Shaping Jerusalem. Spatial planning, politics and the conflict
Shaping Jerusalem: Spatial planning, politics and the conflict focuses on a hidden facet of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; the relentless reshaping …
Corruption in land-use issues
This paper deals with the question of corruption in the field of land-use planning. To curb the insidious spread of …
Zoning-integrative and zoning-alternative transferable development rights
Transferable development rights (TDRs) have been in use for several decades; yet to date they have always had a very …
Planning, pluralism and religious diversity
Religious diversity has significant consequences on the urban environment, and primarily because of the new spaces that it entails. These …
Equal Treatment in Land Use Planning
The paper focuses on ethical aspects related to the transfer of development rights (TDR), that is on the ethical values …