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The minimum land price (MLP) regulation that China introduced in 2007 provides a quasi-experiment to investigate how government intervention in the land market influences the intensity with which i...

Contains fulltext : 150337.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access) Based on a case study of the Stadshaven port redevelopment in Rotterdam, this paper explores whether existing spatial planning mechanisms and processes can be used to facilitate local-level investment in climate-resilient public infrastructure and/or whether new processes and mechanisms are required to encourage investment in climate adaptation. The study reveals several key findings. First, a lack of conventional funding sources or formalised regulatory framework allowed room for experimentation with existing mechanisms and flexible strategies. Second, project planners are currently ambivalent towards introducing new mechanisms as a means to overcome implementation challenges. The case provides evidence about the role of the governance process, not simply as a means of system coordination that exists in isolation from institutional norms and values, but rather as a space for innovation, which can contribute towards reducing the financial gap associated with climate adaptation. 10 april 2014

The supply side of real estate markets has remained relatively neglected compared to the body of work that studies the demand side. Consequently, little is known about the way that suppliers actually make decisions about the quantity of land and property to be made available for sale at any one time. This paper investigates how one particular type of suppliers, public developers of serviced industrial building land in the Netherlands, assess market conditions, and the way these analyses influence decisions to make more serviced building land available. This paper presents evidence from interviews amongst municipal developers and finds that profit considerations are not the main motive behind their decisions to develop industrial land. Municipalities are involved in land development primarily because they want to be able to steer local economic development. Furthermore, they also pay attention to ‘nonprice’ signals of market conditions – sales levels in particular – when deciding to make more land availabl...

Louw E., van der Krabben E. and van Amsterdam H. The spatial productivity of industrial land, Regional Studies. This paper presents a theoretical approach to analysing the concept of spatial productivity and the meaning of land as a production factor in regional science. It presents the results of an empirical study that aims to determine and explain regional differences in the spatial productivity of industrial estates in the Netherlands. It shows that spatial productivity is influenced by urbanization rates, the share of manufacturing employment on industrial estates and land development policy. Louw E., van der Krabben E. and van Amsterdam H. 产业用地的空间生产力，区域研究。 本文用理论方法分析区域科学中空间生产力的概念以及土地作为生产要素的意义。本文是一个相关经验研究的结果，该研究旨在明确并解释荷兰产业园区空间生产力的区域差异。结果表明，空间生产力受到城市化率、产业园中制造业就业率以及土地发展政策的影响。 产业用地 空间效率 土地政策 产业园 Louw E., van der Krabben E. et van Amsterdam H. La productivite geographique du terrain industriel, Regional Studies. Cet article presente une approche theorique d'analyser la notion de productivite geographique ...

Summary Recent contributions to the literature on urban economic theory focus mainly on the relations between changes in the organization of firms and the spatial restructuring of urban regions. In this respect, it is argued that changes in the production system result in new locational preferences of firms and consequently in changes in the spatial pattern of cities. In this paper we stress the relevance of both shifts in the organization of firms and markets with respect to urban spatial restructuring processes, but at the same time we notice an important shortcoming in this theoretical tradition: processes that are being held responsible for the provision of the built environment ‐ the way in which the urban spatial structure is actually changed ‐ are generally neglected. The interconnectedness of these different processes is demonstrated empirically in a case study of developments that took place in the region Noordoost‐Brabant. It is concluded that institutional urban economic theory is only partiall...