The transfer of development rights as a tool for the urban growth containment: A comparison between the United States and Italy

Abstract

In recent years many countries all over the world adopted a variety of preservation tools and market‐oriented solutions to contain land consumption. Among these countries Italy slowly began to incorporate the principles of the free market into the urban planning programmes. The United States Transfer of development rights programmes (TDR) represent a reference point for a market‐based approach in the field of environmental preservation policies. In this paper we compared the criteria successfully adopted by the US TDR programmes to the specifications adopted by the municipal plans of three important Italian cities (Milan, Rome and Florence) and we discussed their efficacy to control the urban growth.

Nonmarketization Bargaining and Actual Compensation Level for Land Requisition: A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of China’s Land Requisition Conflict Events

“…Meanwhile, developed market economies also actively introduce market tools in land requisitions through institutional innovation, which as a result reduces the transaction cost of land requisitions. For example, the United States, Italy, Hong Kong protect private property rights and realize fair distribution of land value-added benefits by Transferable Development Rights (TDR) and Purchasable Development Rights (PDR) [14][15][16][17].…”

Institutional arrangements for urban conservation

“…Some of these demolished heritages could have been saved if the transferable development rights (TDR) system was introduced in Serbia, which enables transfer out of unused development potentials to finance the in situ conservation efforts. TDR has borne fruits in some urban conservation programmes in countries like Italy and the USA (Colavitti and Serra 2017).…”

Laboratory Experiments of Tradable Development Rights: A Synthesis of Different Treatments

“…Previous studies on TDR schemes have conducted surveys of case studies, mostly for the United States (e.g., [6][7][8][9][10][11][12]). The TDR schemes described and evaluated are, however, often highly context and country dependent and their respective policy implications might therefore lack generalizability.…”

“…The market based approach of a cap and trade system for TDR is discussed among economists in many countries. For instance, [36] consider the Australian case; [37], China; [38], Germany; [39] or [7], Italy; [40], the Netherlands; or [41], Switzerland. Most experience with TDR schemes can be found in the United States, where this approach has been implemented on a regional level for several decades (for an overview, see [42]).…”