Swiss land improvement syndicates: ‘Impure’ Coasian solutions?

Shahab, Sina; Viallon, François-Xavier

doi:10.1177/1473095220923629

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“…Clinch, O'Neill [34] study how these solutions have been implemented in planning scenarios in Ireland by developing agencies to regulate rights to development. Shahab and Viallon [35] studied the case of Switzerland and showed how planning organizations can minimize transaction costs in the transfer of property rights.…”

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Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools

Holguin-Veras

Ramírez-Ríos

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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Land-use planning and policymaking is central to how communities manage their economic activity and the social and environmental impacts these activities produce. Because of this central role, enhancing land-use practices to better incorporate the needs and impacts of freight activity has strong potential to improve the efficiency of their associated supply chains. This paper summarizes the key findings of the NCFRP 08-111 project on “Freight-Efficient Land Uses (FELUs)”, probably the most comprehensive research project to date aimed at designing policy procedures to foster land-uses that minimize the private and external costs associated with the production, transportation, and consumption of goods. As part of the paper, the authors define freight efficient land-uses, identify the principles that should guide the process towards FELUs, outline the process to develop FELU plans and programs, propose to analyze the freight efficiency of current and future land uses in their jurisdictions, and identify complementary initiatives (both land-use and transportation related) that could help mitigate the negative impacts on local communities. The authors discuss three illustrative cases that provide evidence on how land-use decisions produce unintended effects on local communities. The paper explains how decision makers can carefully consider the FELU principles in their planning and avoid or mitigate such negative results.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools

Holguin-Veras

Ramírez-Ríos

et al. 2021

Sustainability

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“…development regulations and planning and legal systems). While planners in the Netherlands are characterized as to hold a very active role in development processes, as they are directly involved in buying and developing the land in the Dutch market-oriented planning, planners in Germany are primarily described as taking a rather passive role with regards to land policy, with land readjustment as one of the primary policy instruments (Hartmann and Spit 2015;Shahab and Viallon 2020;Tennekes, Harbers, and Buitelaar 2015). In Flanders, a region with one of the highest land takes in Europe, delivering new developments, whilst tackling urban sprawl, remains the main challenging task for planners.…”

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“…Making sense of the plurality of strategies beyond the contextual factors would enable planning practitioners and researchers to learn from the different strategies and experience with them. This asks for a neo-institutional approach to understand the diverse approaches of how norms and values of actors influence the decisions (Sorensen 2018;Shahab and Viallon 2020). The plurality makes the analysis of different strategies of land policy a challenging endeavour.…”

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Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands

Shahab

Hartmann

Jonkman

2020

European Planning Studies

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How do municipalities strategically use land policy to develop land for housing? The development of housing is a challenge for many European countries, though the scale and time of it differs. Issues are not always about the absolute number of houses that need to be supplied in a country. The distribution and quality of houses affect the demand for housing. Land policy determines where and how future developments take place, and as a result, it has a considerable impact on both supply and demand of housing. Municipalities use different strategies of land policy to pursue housing goals. This paper aims to explore the rationalities underpinning such strategies of land policy. Therefore, a theory on pluralism-Cultural Theoryis employed to understand municipal strategies in different contexts, i.e. Germany (Ruhr region), Belgium (Flanders), and Netherlands. Applying Cultural Theory to land policy results in four ideal-typical strategies of active, passive, reactive, and protective land policies. Despite the fact that the decisions of municipalities are made within (or constrained by) their institutional environments (i.e. national/regional planning systems, development cultures, etc.), we found that there are key similarities between the strategies of the studied municipalities regardless of their different institutional environments.

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“…Over the years, the value of parks and green spaces for cities and their bene ts for the health and welfare of citizens has been discussed and proven in many studies (Hunter et al, 2019;Shen et al, 2017;Bertram & Rehdanz, 2015;Twohig-Bennett & Jones, 2018). In general, green spaces are an essential part of the urban landscape, as they are crucial for the stability and sustainability of cities (Belmeziti et al, 2018;Aram, Solgi, & Holden, 2019;Shahab & Viallon, 2020). Hence, designing and building green spaces should be a key part of any urban plan that aims to create sustainable cities with healthy communities (Shashua-Bar et al, 2009;Buyadi et al, 2015;Lee et al, 2016;Shahab & Viallon, 2019).…”

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Urban heat resilience at the time of global warming: evaluating the impact of the urban parks on outdoor thermal comfort

Aram

Solgi

García

et al. 2020

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Background: In densely populated urban centers, increased air temperature due to urban heat island (UHI) effect can undermine the thermal comfort and health of citizens. Research has shown that large urban parks can mitigate the effect of UHIs and improve thermal comfort, especially in the warmer months of the year when temperature changes are more noticeable. This study investigated the cooling effect intensity (CEI) of the Retiro Park in the center of Madrid at three different distances from its southern edge and the impact of this cooling effect on thermal comfort from physiological and psychological perspectives. This investigation was performed by measuring microclimate data and conducting a survey simultaneously during the summer days. Results: The results showed that the CEI of the park varies with distance from its edge. Because of this effect, air temperature within the 130m and 280m distance of the park was respectively 1.6°C and 0.9°C lower than the temperature at the 520m distance (the nearest heat island). After examining the effect of the park in terms of Physiological Equivalent Temperature (PET), it was found that the PET at the 130m and 280m distance of the park was 9.3% and 5.4% less than the PET in the heat island domain. More than 81% of the respondents (in all three areas) had a mental image of the park as the place where they would experience the highest level of outdoor thermal comfort, and this rate was higher in the areas closer to the park. The analysis of citizens’ responses about perceived thermal comfort (PTC) showed that citizens in areas with higher CEI had perceived a higher degree of thermal comfort from the psychological perspective.Conclusion: This study demonstrates the significant role of large urban parks located in the core of the populated cities in providing thermal comfort for citizens from both physiological and psychological perspectives. Additionally, the results of this study demonstrated that among the environmental (natural and artificial) factors around the park (topography, urban structure, etc.), the aspect ratio has the greatest impact on thermal comfort.

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Swiss land improvement syndicates: ‘Impure’ Coasian solutions?

Cited by 20 publications

References 71 publications

Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools

Freight-Efficient Land Uses: Methodology, Strategies, and Tools

Strategies of municipal land policies: housing development in Germany, Belgium, and Netherlands

Urban heat resilience at the time of global warming: evaluating the impact of the urban parks on outdoor thermal comfort

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