Property
and Values offers a fresh look at property rights issues, bringing together
scholars, attorneys, government officials, community development practitioners,
and environmental advocates to consider new and more socially equitable
forms of ownership. This unusual book evolved from a conference organized
by the Equity Trust, Inc., in cooperation with the American Bar Association's
Commission on Homelessness and Poverty.
The book synthesizes much innovative thinking on ownership in land and housing,
and signals how that thinking might be used across America. Contributors
- including David Abromowitz, Darby Bradley, John E. Davis, Teresa Duclos,
Sally Fairfax, Margaret Grossman, Michael Heller, Alice Ingerson, Jim Libby,
C. Ford Runge, Joseph Singer and others - call for balance between property
rights and responsibilities, between private and public rights in property,
and between individual and societal interests in land. Property and Values
is a thought-provoking contribution to the literature on property for planners,
lawyers, government officials, resource economists, environmental managers,
and social scientists as well as for students of planning, environmental
law, geography, or public policy.
Property and Values
Shows how concepts of ownership have evolved in response to broader social
change in the US and abroad
- Challenges conventional definitions of ownership and the arbitrary
distinction between public and private ownership
- Looks to US history as well as other cultures for new concepts of
ownership
- Surveys public policy affecting property value, focusing on "givings"-
a subject typically overlooked in discussions of public "takings"
of private rights in land
- Synthesizes innovative thinking on new forms of ownership for perpetually
affordable housing and for preserving both working and wild lands
- Documents how alternative forms of ownership have been used to achieve
both social and environmental goals
Charles Geisler (rural sociology, Cornell U.) and Gail Daneker (formerly
of The Campaign for Peace and Democracy, and Environmentalists for Full
Employment) present 13 contributions that call for balance between property
rights and responsibilities, exploring new concepts of private and public
land ownership that they hope can be applied towards more socially equitable
relations in the US.
The articles are organized into four sections which explain ownership
as socially evolving concept, challenge conventional public-private
ownership categories, survey recent studies on the impact of public
policy on property values, and offer examples from other cultures of
different ownership realities.
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Single copies: $28.00 (20% discount);
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Bulk orders (20 and over):
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other US orders, please enquire.
Another Equity Trust resource that
might be of interest:
Investing in Social Change: Student
Handbook on Community Investment by Colleges and Universities
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