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Urban development in sub-Saharan Africa has posed more challenges in recent decades, shifting the focus from rural poverty to urbanized poverty. Because of a rapidly urbanizing sub-Saharan Africa coupled with failures in urban management, urban economies have grown slower than correspondent population increase, slum growth has increased and poverty has urbanized. Of all urban challenges, housing has posed serious challenges in sub-Saharan Africa, yet the prime basis of urban housing is land. Land management is key to urban development due to its influences on the social, economic development and urban environmental management. Land and housing are important sectors as urbanization and urban development accelerate. This book examines the relationship between operations of informal land markets and housing development for planning policies that are responsive to the land market conditions.

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Table of Contents:
ABSTRACT
Acknowledgements

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION, pp. 1-10

Positioning the Research Problem and Foci
Aims of the Research
The Scope of the Book
Structure of the Text

CHAPTER TWO
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON LAND USE AND URBAN SPATIAL PLANNING, pp.11-25

ABSTRACT
History of Kampala
Growth and Expansion of Kampala
Planning of Kampala during and after the Colonial Period

CHAPTER THREE
THEORIZING LAND MARKETS, URBAN PLANNING AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, pp. 27-72

ABSTRACT
Urban Land Markets
The Nature of Urban Land Markets
Land Markets and Land Rights
Types of Land Markets
Operations of Informal Urban Land Markets
Urban Land Markets and Land Management
Urban Land Sub-Markets
Housing Development
Diversified Housing Markets and Policy
Actors in Housing Development
Land Market Operations and Planning
Manifestation of Land Markets in Kampala
Evolution of Property Rights
Property Rights in the Pre-Colonial Period
Land Rights during the Colonial Period
Post-Colonial Period
The Manifestation of Land Markets in the Central Region of Uganda
Land Tenure after
The Land Act
Property Rights: A Categorization
Theory of Land Markets
Economic Aspects of Land Exchange
Bid-Rent Function Theory
Efficiencies and Inefficiencies of Informal Land Markets
Uncertainties in Informal Land Markets
Urban Planning Theory
Conceptual Framework
Social Cultural Externalities

CHAPTER FOUR
METHOD, pp. 73-80

ABSTRACT
Description of the Settlements
Research Design
Limitations to Interpretation of Findings

CHAPTER FIVE
POLICY, LEGAL AND INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK, pp. 81-90

ABSTRACT
Legal Framework on Land
Urban Development Policy Framework
Land Management Policies

CHAPTER SIX
FORMAL AND INFORMAL URBAN LAND MARKETS, pp. 91-121

ABSTRACT
Formal Land Markets
Actors in the Formal Urban Land Markets
Rules of the Game in Formal Urban Land Markets
Information Flow in the Formal Urban Land Markets
Land Values under Formal Urban Land Markets
Completing a Land Rights Transaction in the Formal Urban Land Market
Land Alienation in Formal Urban Land Markets
Informal Land Market Operations
Actors in Informal Land Markets
Rules of the Game in Informal Land Markets
Information Flow in Informal Land Markets
Standards in Informal Land Markets
Transaction Costs in the Informal Urban Land Market
Completing a Land Rights Transaction in the Informal Urban Land Markets
Modes of Land Supply in Informal Land Markets
Land Alienation in Informal Urban Land Markets
Comparison of Informal and Formal Land Markets
The Congruence of Formal and Informal Land Markets
The Informality of the Formal
Formality in the Informal
Dissimilarities between Informal and Formal Land Markets

CHAPTER SEVEN
URBAN LAND VALUES, pp. 123-141

ABSTRACT
Land Values in the Urban Land Markets
A Spatial Pattern of Land Values
Factors that Determine Land Values

CHAPTER EIGHT
URBAN LAND MARKETS AND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, pp. 143-156

ABSTRACT
Housing Development process
House Sizes
Informal Housing Development
Housing and Attendant Utilities
Planning Implications of Current Housing Development Processes
Housing and Land Consumption

CHAPTER NINE
LAND MARKETS AND SPATIAL PLANNING IN KAMPALA, pp. 157-167

ABSTRACT
Urban Land Use Zoning
Use of Land Values in Planning
Participation in Plan Formulation
Land Subdivisions and Planning
Development Plan Processing

CHAPTER TEN
UNLOCKING URBAN LAND MARKETS FOR SUSTAINABLE URBAN DEVELOPMENT, pp. 169-176

ABSTRACT
Emerging Policy Issues
Unlocking urban Land Markets

CHAPTER ELEVEN
CONCLUSION, pp. 177-183

ABSTRACT
Areas for Further Research
References, pp. 185-190

Index