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The Potential of Land Planning in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda

A special issue of Land (ISSN 2073-445X). This special issue belongs to the section "Land Planning and Landscape Architecture".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 8264

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Lawrence Wai Chung Lai

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Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Interests: town planning; property rights; heritage conservation; sustainable development
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Prof. Dr. Kwong Wing Chau

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Ronald Coase Centre for Property Rights Research, Department of Real Estate and Construction, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong
Interests: property rights; sustainable development; real estate finance; heritage conservation; zoning; town and country planning
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was launched by a UN Summit in New York held 25–27 September 2015. The Agenda aims to end poverty in all of its forms, in accordance with a UN vision that imagines “a world of universal respect for human rights and human dignity, the rule of law, justice, equality and non-discrimination.”

In this light, this Special Issue solicits research papers (analytical, empirical, or case studies) which address any of the following seven concrete land (regional, town, and country) planning policy/law areas:

  • Identifying and removing planned segregation based on ethnicity, religion, wealth, etc. (to increase efficiency).
  • Ceasing and prohibiting forced combinations or subdivisions causing massive, arbitrary, and uncompensated social dislocations, ecological crises, or destruction of heritage (to avoid causing inequity and harming heritage conservation or sustainable development).
  • Forward planning (by agreement) to provide adequate well-planned land for various uses (to guarantee spatial efficiency and equity, heritage conservation, and sustainable development).
  • Instituting new planning instruments (e.g., land readjustments and land bonds) to free land from its outmoded cadastral boundaries to realize its development potential without violating rights to land (to guarantee spatial efficiency and equity, and to promote heritage conservation and sustainable development).
  • Instituting new planning instruments to bring about win-win land use outcomes in support of design, technological, and other innovations (to guarantee spatial efficiency and equity, and to promote heritage conservation and sustainable development).
  • Planning (by edict if necessary) to correct errors of segregation and other planning mistakes (to guarantee spatial efficiency and equity, heritage conservation, and sustainable development).
  • Critical analysis of the feasibility and limitations of the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda in relation to land (i.e., regional, town, and country) planning.

Prof. Dr. Lawrence W.C. Lai
Prof. Dr. Kwong Wing Chau
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • land planning
  • regional planning
  • town and country planning
  • segregation
  • land readjustment
  • land bond
  • sustainable development

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Impact of Governance Structure of Rural Collective Economic Organizations on Trading Efficiency of Collective Construction Land of China
by Meie Deng, Anlu Zhang, Wei Luo, Canwei Hu, Meng Huang and Congxi Cheng
Land 2023, 12(2), 381; https://doi.org/10.3390/land12020381 - 31 Jan 2023
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In order to enable urban economic development, the use of the right value and asset value of rural collective construction land (RCCL) is increasingly becoming apparent and this market is experiencing rapid development. However, the arrangement of the governance structure of rural shareholding [...] Read more.
In order to enable urban economic development, the use of the right value and asset value of rural collective construction land (RCCL) is increasingly becoming apparent and this market is experiencing rapid development. However, the arrangement of the governance structure of rural shareholding cooperatives (RSCs) can seriously affect the efficiency of collective construction land market transactions, since the governance of RSCs is related to the interests of farmers. Protecting the rights and interests of farmers while improving the governance efficiency of RSCs is a considerable challenge worldwide. To better deal with this challenge, this study used a field survey in Nanhai District, Guangdong Province, China, to estimate how the governance structure of RSCs affect the efficiency of RCCL market transactions. Tobit models were constructed, and the results show that (1) most of the governance functions of RSCs were not separate from the administrative management of the village committees, which leads to low efficiency of RSCs’ governance; (2) leaders of rural collective economic organizations played a key role in governance efficiency; (3) from the perspective of collective land property rights, most village shareholders did not have decision-making power or supervisory authority in the RCCL transfers because they could not complete access to transaction information. Furthermore, most villagers felt that the amount of income distributed was unreasonable, and the rights and interests of farmers and village shareholders were not guaranteed by the RSCs. Therefore, we suggest that the Chinese authorities should strengthen their current efforts to construct a more open and fair governance structure of the RSCs and thus improve their market transaction efficiency. Our work provides some insights into ways to improve the governance structure and market transaction efficiency of RSCs, which can further contribute to the development of the RCCL market in other areas of China and worldwide. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Potential of Land Planning in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda)
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On Physical Urban Boundaries, Urban Sprawl, and Compactness Measurement: A Case Study of the Wen-Tai Region, China
by Xiaoling Dai, Jiafeng Jin, Qianhu Chen and Xin Fang
Land 2022, 11(10), 1637; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11101637 - 23 Sep 2022
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China’s rapid urbanization has been accompanied by serious urban sprawl. Instead of measuring the physical urban boundaries (PUBs), most of existing studies in China rely on yearbook statistics to describe the growth of urbanized area; therefore, the understanding of the actual form and [...] Read more.
China’s rapid urbanization has been accompanied by serious urban sprawl. Instead of measuring the physical urban boundaries (PUBs), most of existing studies in China rely on yearbook statistics to describe the growth of urbanized area; therefore, the understanding of the actual form and quantity of urban sprawl are restrained. As the statistical unit is generally at or above the county level, these studies tend to omit the lower-level “larger towns”. This paper discusses the measurement of urban sprawl and compactness using multi-source data on the GIS platform through the case study of the Wen-Tai region in China. GlobeLand30 remote sensing image data, vector road network data, NPP/VIIRS nighttime light data, and points of interest (POIs) data are adopted. The new method enhances the identification of built-up areas in larger towns. Besides, the 2020s’ PUBs of this region, data for 2010 and 2000 are retraced to assess the urban expansion rate, and two approaches are used to discuss the urban growth pattern. Additionally, a compactness model is constructed from four dimensions, i.e., the compactness of external contour, accessibility of road network, land-use intensity, and functional diversity, by which a high-resolution visual analysis tool is created for the provincial government to monitor urban sprawl. Full article
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Land Planning, Property Rights and Management of Built Heritage: Some Hong Kong Observations of Colonial Military Buildings
by Lawrence W. C. Lai, Stephen N. G. Davies, Lennon H. T. Choy and K. W. Chau
Land 2022, 11(9), 1516; https://doi.org/10.3390/land11091516 - 8 Sep 2022
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There has been much confusion in property rights inquiry into real (immovable) property (i.e., land) between open access and common property, and between public property and common property because that is often also open access. This paper argues that the property rights and [...] Read more.
There has been much confusion in property rights inquiry into real (immovable) property (i.e., land) between open access and common property, and between public property and common property because that is often also open access. This paper argues that the property rights and access control are two distinct dimensions of land resource management. Access control involves the exercise of exclusionary power relevant to the management of the immovable property (property management) for its optimal use. A review of the literature shows that definitions of property management tend to be too narrow but point towards the need to articulate issues within the property rights paradigm. As a contribution to sustainable resource use as a dimension of land planning, this paper points out and discusses the probable sources of the confusion between land property rights and property management. A “Land Property Rights and Management Matrix” (LPRMM) is developed as a theoretical tool for clarifying the confusion and the relationships amongst relevant concepts. The LPRMM is theoretically informed by Barzel’s not entirely correct distinction between legal (de jure) and economic (de facto) rights and enriched by relevant literature on property rights and property management. Practical use of the LPRMM is illustrated by its application to analyze the issues pertaining to the actual resource-use phenomena in colonial military buildings erected on both private and public land in Hong Kong. The results show that heritage buildings on land under public ownership as private property can be neglected or intensively managed. The LPRMM is not only a useful theoretical tool for precisely assessing the actual affairs of resource use but also a practical tool for identifying issues of property management in its widest sense. The LPRMM offered is a proper interpretation of Barzel’s distinction between legal and economic rights and contributes to systematically re-interpreting property management as town planning writ large in terms of de jure property rights and de facto access. Full article
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