China's economic reforms and unprecedented growth have generated many fascinating
issues for scholarly research. An understanding of urbanization and land use change in …

Shaping Places explains how towns and cities can turn real estate development to their
advantage to create the kind of places where people want to live, work, relax and invest. It …

Urban regeneration is a complicated process as it involves a lot of parties each with different
interests and agendas. Regeneration of urban villages is an even more intricate issue in …

Informed by Coasian transaction cost reasoning from a neo-institutional economic
perspective, this literature review identifies and examines 225 available research works …

Land readjustment and redistribution (LR) is an important approach used to realize
development plans by converting rural lands to urban land and also providing urban …

Informal land development has become a key issue in relation to land use planning in many
countries. A new type of informal development, the informal gate community, has emerged …

Large-scale urban village redevelopment projects (UVRPs) have been implemented in
different ways in China in recent years. This study develops an analytical framework for …

Valuation of real property is an essential part of land readjustment, with the purpose to
establish the right exchange value of parcels shifting owners. Applied methods should be …

China has experienced a rapid urbanization process, under which the urban population has
increased from 170 million to more than 900 million in the past four decades. This study …

The conventional and state controlled expropriation is the sole urban land acquisition
method for housing and other urban development purposes in Ethiopia. Transitional peri …