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Papers and Presentations
Day 1: Monday, May 14, 2007
| Opening Plenary Session Presentations |
- Laszlo Lovei, Director, Finance, Economics & Urban Development, World Bank
Presentation (PDF file)
- Praful Patel, Regional Vice President, World Bank
- J. Vernon Henderson, Brown University, The Effects of Residential Land Market Regulation on Urban Welfare
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| Understanding the Informal Housing Market |
- Maria da Piedade Morais, Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, "Housing demand, tenure choice and housing policy in Brazil"
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- Sumila Gulyani, Columbia University and World Bank, "Slum real estate: The low-quality high-price puzzle in Nairobi's slum rental market and its implications"
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- Ahmed Soliman, Alexandria University, Egypt, "Urban informality in Egyptian cites: Coping with diversity"
Paper (PDF file) Presentation (PDF 1.3 MB)
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| Public Intervention in Land Markets: Pros and Cons |
- Isabel Viana, Instituto Del Suelo Urbano, Uraguay, "Metropolitan Montevideo urban land markets"
Paper (PDF file) Presentation (PDF 2.1 MB)
- Robert Buckley and Ashna Mathema, World Bank, "Some possible unintended consequences of land use and housing policies: The case of Accra"
Paper (PDF file) Presentation (PDF 1 MB)
- Nora Libertun de Duren, Columbia University, New York, "Polarization and prosperity in the Buenos Aires' periphery. How does decentralized management of land use impact on urban growth?"
Paper (PDF file) Presentation (PDF 1.2 MB)
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| Alternatives for the Security of Tenure |
- John Driscoll and Christa Lee-Chuvala, Institute for International Urban Development, Cambridge (US), "Delivery of security of tenure, infrastructure services and access to finance through community-based approaches"
Paper (PDF file) Presentation (PDF 1.7 MB)
- Joseph Comby and Caroline Gerber, Etudes Foncières, Paris, "Securing property rights to land without cadaster"
Paper (French) (PDF file) (English) (PDF file) Presentation (PDF file)
- Flavio de Souza, Universidade Federal de Alagos, Brazil, "Municipal interventions in delivering alternative land tenure and low-income housing markets in Brazil"
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| The Evaluation of Urban Intervention |
- Setsu Kanto, Independent Researcher, Brazil, "Slums upgrading in Brazil during the 1990's: An evaluation using census data"
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- Somik Lall, World Bank, "Assessing benefits of slum upgrading programs in second best settings (Brazil)"
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- Michael Cohen, New School University, New York, "Aid, density and urban form: Anticipating Dakar"
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| Property Rights and Land Development |
- Annette Kim, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (US), "North versus South: The impact of social norms in the market pricing of private property rights in Vietnam"
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- Eric Heikkila, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, "Formal property rights and informality: A critical re-assessment"
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- Albert Cao and Ramin Keivani, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (UK), "Land markets, property led growth and urban economic development: Lessons from China"
Paper (PDF file) Presentation (PDF 2.6 MB)
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| The Functioning of the Housing Market and Its Constraints |
- Paulo Sandroni, Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil,"Evaluation of some impacts of large-scale urban interventions on construction density, population, gentrification, real estate prices and taxes: The case of the Faria Lima Urban Operation in Sao Paulo"
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- Ellen Hamilton, World Bank, "The cost-price structure of housing production in Russia"
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- Emilio Haddad, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil, "Housing conditions and income distribution: Evidences from Sao Paulo, Brazil"
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Day 2: Tuesday, May 15, 2007
| Plenary Session Presentations |
- The Formalization of Land Tenure
Alain Durand-Lasserve, CNRS, Laboratoire SEDET, University Denis Diderot, Paris
Harris Selod, INRA-Paris School of Economics and CREST, Paris, and CEPR, London
Paper (PDF file) Presentation (PDF 1.1 MB)
Public Land Management and Land Market Outcomes
Robin Rajack, Senior Urban Development Specialist, World Bank
Paper (PDF file) Presentation (PDF file)
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| Special Brown Bag Lunch Presentation: Enhancing Territorial Equity and Social Inclusion in Brasilia's Land Markets |
- Diana Meirelles da Motta and Emmanuel Calvacante Porto, Institute for Applied Economic Research (IPEA), Brazil
Presentation (PDF 2.6 MB)
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| Making the Land Market Work for the Poor |
- Cynthia Goytia, Torcuato di Tella University, Buenos Aires, "Informal neighborhoods in Buenos Aires metropolitan region: Understanding the effects of land regulation the welfare of the poor"
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- Manya Mooya, University of Cape Town, South Africa, "Making urban land markets work for the poor: Policy, practice and possibility"
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- Rose Musyoka, Ministry of Land and Housing, Kenya, "Formal urban land supply: Theory and practice"
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| The Effects of Urban Planning |
- Jieming Zhu, National University of Singapore, Singapore, "The roles of pro-growth urban planning in economic growth - a land rights regime responsive to market change during transition"
Paper (PDF 1.4 MB) Presentation (PDF file)
- Tetsuo Kidokoro, University of Tokyo, Japan, "Improving spatial planning systems and development control mechanisms towards sustainable urban development in Asian cities"
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- Christine Whitehead, London School of Economics, London, "Land use regulation: Transferring lessons from developed countries"
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| Impacts of Land Titling Programs and Different Types of Ownership |
- Vrajlal Sapovadia, Gujarat University, India, "A critical study of urban land ownership by an individual vis-à-vis institutional (or community) based ownership - The Impact of type of ownership on spatial growth, efficiency and equity: A case study of Ahmedabad, India"
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- Julio Calderon Cockburn, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima, "After formalization, what's next? Notes about the consolidation of human settlements in low-income areas"
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- Geoffrey Payne, Geoffrey Payne and Associates, London, "Social and economic impacts of land titling programmes in urban and peri-urban areas: A review of the literature"
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| The Role of Land Use Planning in City Development |
- Belinda Yuen, National University of Singapore, Singapore, "Guiding spatial changes: Singapore urban planning"
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- Olga Kaganova, Urban Institute, Washington, DC, "Strategic land management plans in Kyrgyzstan's cities: Promoting transparent local public policy and efficient utilization of public land"
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- Afolabi Aribigbola, Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria, "Urban land use planning, policies and management in sub saharan african countries: Empirical evidence from Akure, Nigeria"
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| Guiding Urban Forms |
- Mathew Chandy, CHF International, Silver Spring (US), "The use of transfer of development rights and additional developing rights in urban service upgrading: Lessons from Mumbai, India"
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- Tej Karki, Department of Urban Development, Nepal, "Efficiency and equity issues of land readjustment projects implemented in Nepal"
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- Jiawen Yang, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, "Land development control under motorization pressure: Will China have transit-friendly urban forms?"
Paper (PDF file) Presentation (PDF 1.7 MB)
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| The Formation and Growth of Slums |
- Pooya Alaedini, University of Tehran, Iran, "Land markets and housing dynamics in low income settlements in Iran: Examining data from three cities"
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- Alejandro Bayona, National Planning Department, Colombia, "Land and housing for the urban poor: Urban development and environmental policy direction - National Planning Department"
Paper (PDF 2.2 MB) Presentation (PDF 1.7 MB)
- Sean Fox, London School of Economics , London, "Blue Cities: Encompassing Governance, Urban Integration and Economic Performance"
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Day 3: Wednesday, May 16, 2007
| Plenary Session Presentation |
- Government Land Use Interventions: An Economic Analysis
Jan Brueckner, University of California, Irvine
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| Policies and Laws for the Expropriation of Land for Urban and Infrastructure Projects: An Exploration of World Trends |
- Antonio Azuela, Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
- Carlos Herrera, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
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| The Failures and Distortions of Land Markets and their Effects |
- Erhard Berner, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands, "Of slums and gated communities: Failures of formal and informal land markets in developing cities"
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- Mark Napier, Urban LandMark, South Africa, "Making urban land markets work better in South African cities and towns: Arguing the basis for access by the poor"
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- Opuenebo Owei, University of Science & Technology, Nigeria, "Distortions of the urban land market in Nigerian cities and the implications for urban growth patterns: The Case of Abuja and Port Harcourt"
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| Understanding Slums |
- Remy Sietchiping, University of Melbourne - Sages, Australia, "Urban planning and slum incidence indices: Empirical evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa"
Paper Presentation (PDF file)
- Varsha Ayyar, University of Mumbai, India, and Lalit Khandare, Indiana University, Indianapolis "Social networks in slums and rehabilitation sites: A study in Mumbai (India)"
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- Edith Jimenez, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, "Public policies for the management of irregular settlements in Guadalajara, Mexico: A method for building consensus"
(co-authored by María Luisa García, University of
Guadalajara, Mexico)
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| The Challenge of Managing Suburban Growth |
- Edward Leman, Chreod Asia, Ltd, Ottowa, "Managing suburban growth in China's metropolitan region: trends and options"
Paper Presentation (PDF 4.1 MB)
- Urmi Sengupta, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, and Sujeet Sharma, Wansbeck District Council, UK, "Government intervention and land development in New Town, Kolkata: Emerging lessons for policymakers"
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- Volker Kreibich, Universität Dortmund, Germany, "Guiding informal urban growth with trunk infrastructure: Linkages between informal urban growth and technical infrastructure"
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| Closing Plenary Session |
Awarding of the Symposium's best paper
Panel of discussants:
- Inga Björk-Klevby, Deputy Executive Director, UN-Habitat
- Gregory Ingram, President, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
- William Cobbett, Program Manager, Cities Alliance
- Somik Lall, Senior Economist, World Bank
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