Urban land economics / Jack Harvey.

Includes index.

Previous ed.: 1996.

Bibliography.

Part 1: Welfare and economic efficiency -- Economic efficiency through the price system -- Part 2: Real property -- Characteristics of the real property market -- Functions of the real property market -- The pricing of land and land resources -- Investment in real property -- Part 3: Development -- The development process -- The timing and rate of redevelopment -- Finance for development -- The impact of finance on the commercial property market -- Comprehensive redevelopment -- Public-sector development: cost-benefit analysis -- The economics of planning controls -- The construction industry -- Part 4: Urban land use -- Land use and land values -- The pattern of urban land use -- The growth of urban areas -- The quality of the urban environment: problems of urban areas -- Housing -- Regional policy -- Part 5: The governement and land resources -- The impact of government macro policy on land and property resources -- Economic theory and public finance -- The incidence of taxation on land resources -- UK property and the European Union (EU)