Standard models in urban economics assume that the boundary of an urban area will expand as long as the present value of land for urban uses is greater than the present value of land for rural uses. Under this assumption, the boundary of the urban area is endogenously determined by the rent paid to rural landowners. But this assumption is not realistic. The physical expansion of many major urban areas in the United States is impeded by an exogenous boundary. For example, geographic growth of the three most populated metropolitan areas in the country is limited by an ocean or a Great Lake. In this thesis, we argue that such exogenous boundaries affect land prices throughout the urban area because inter-city migration is costly and these boundaries effectively constrain the supply of land. Specifically, we develop a theoretical model in support of this conclusion and show that prices are highest in cities with the most restrictive exogenous boundaries, ceteris paribus. This argument implies that researchers who do not control for exogenous boundaries could be introducing a systematic bias in their findings if they use land prices or rents to measure the value of public amenities in urban areas or the relative desirability of different cities.

The intensification of downtown Vancouver is the result of a structured fiscal, design and planning project. Cardinal to this effort is the realization of public amenities through the development process. However, those involved in the struggle to control the provision of amenities deny that no less than the determination of legitimate public goods is at stake in the contest. Employing Bourdieu's understanding of capital and related description of social space, the objective of the thesis is to examine how amenity production is oriented by the public benefit's utility to the dominant interest of capital accumulation. Reviewing the adoption of discretionary zoning and its corollaries to planning permission explicates the relation of a legalized aesthetic to the process of amenitization. The understanding of physical heritage asa public value is among the derivatives of this association with the introduction of planning mechanisms to encourage the retention of historic structures. The subsequent naturalization of heritage as public value and concurrent endowment of its capacity to facilitate development serves as an appropriate vehicle in the consideration of amenity valuation. By specifying the physical form and the legitimated community value of approved development, City reports and bylaws are the primary means of study. Analysis of these documents finds heritage to be the principal amenity realized through development mechanisms and illustrates its substantial influence on the physical and social space of the city. Case studies further support the thesis objective by addressing the constitution of public amenities aligned with the accommodation of the dominant interest; the unbounded consideration of heritage supports the retention of the physical features most conducive to intensification and results in greater development ability in terms of both private capital and in the realization of more bounded social amenities. The misrecognition of this key utility lends considerable authority over the physical transformation of the city and, more importantly, facilitates control of the related social environment. The thesis concludes that heritage serves the ideological continuation of the field of power, and cautions that recent efforts to consider less tangible qualities are symptomatic of this process.

The township in the South African context is a unique consequence of Apartheid spatial planning. Envisaged as settlements for black labourers on the outskirts of the city, they have become home to many South Africans. Mamelodi was established as an effectively designed township for labourers working in Pretoria, and grew at an exponential rate, leading to a sizeable demand for housing. A mass provision of housing was implemented then and, post 1994 to meet this demand. The same strategy of housing is still continuing through the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). This provision of housing has not been complimented by a provision of public amenities and has led to monotonous neighbourhoods filled with housing and no public space. The ever growing community of Lusaka, in the east of Mamelodi, is a community with a landscape of housing without public amenities and public spaces. This neighbourhood has large amounts of people moving in and out, with some people seeing it as a place of permanence and some as a temporary detour. This influx of people and the duality of temporality and permanence creates a very dynamic society, one that the current architecture cannot respond to. The new architecture has to address the above mentioned issues, providing the community with access to public amenities and public spaces that add value to their environment. The solutions derived can be discussed and used to address similar problems plaguing townships around South Africa. / Informele nedersettings in die Suid-Afrikaanse konteks is 'n unieke gevolg van Apartheid se ruimtelike beplanning. Oorspronklik in die vooruitsig gestel as nedersettings vir swart arbeiders het hulle 'n tuiste vir baie Suid-Afrikaners geword. Mamelodi was gestig as 'n effektief ontwerpde informele nedersetting vir arbeiders wat werk in Pretoria en het teen 'n eksponensi?le koers gegroei wat gelei het tot 'n groot aanvraag vir behuising. 'n Massa voorsiening van behuising was toe en n? 1994 ge?mplementeer om hierdie aanvraag te voorsien. Dieselfde strategie van behuising word steeds voortgesit deur die Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP). Hierdie behuisingsvoorsiening was nog nie aangevul deur 'n voorsiening van openbare geriewe nie en het gelei tot eentonige woonbuurte wat gevul is met behuising en geen openbare ruimte. Die steeds groeiende gemeenskap van Lusaka, in die ooste van Mamelodi, is 'n gemeenskap met 'n landskap van behuising sonder openbare geriewe en openbare ruimtes. Hierdie woonbuurt het groot getalle mense wat in en uit beweeg, met sommige mense wat dit sien as 'n plek van blywendheid en ander as 'n tydelike ompad. Hierdie instroming van mense en die dualiteit van tydelikheid en blywendheid skep 'n baie dinamiese samelewing, een wat die huidiglike argitektuur nie op kan reageer nie. Die nuwe argitektuur moet die bogenoemde kwessies aanspreek om die gemeenskap toegang te bied tot openbare geriewe en openbare ruimtes wat waarde toevoeg tot hulle omgewing . Deur dit te doen kan die oplossings wat afgelei is bespreek en gebruik word om soortgelyke kwessies aan te spreek wat informele nedersettings regoor Suid-Afrika teister. Argitektuur is vir die mense / Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2016. / Architecture / MArch (Prof) / Unrestricted

Stadsutvecklingsprojekt är ofta stora, komplexa och sker under lång tid. Vid utvecklingen av nya stadsdelar sker byggnationen ofta i etapper vilket kan resultera i ytor som saknar ett aktivt syfte. Vissa aktörer har däremot valt att tillfälligt använda dessa ytor i syfte att åstadkomma ett sorts värdeskapande, parallellt med stadsutvecklingen. Genom att tillfälligt upprätta allmänna attribut, och att i vissa fall även arbeta med placemaking, vill aktörerna skapa attraktiva platser som tillför värde för både boende och besökare i stadsdelen. Tidigare studier har inte undersökt tillfälliga attribut och deras effekter vid utvecklingen av nya stadsdelar. Eftersom tillfälliga attribut anläggs parallellt med stadsutvecklingen är det av intresse att undersöka motiven och effekterna dessa attribut har på området i dess helhet. Syftet med studiens är därmed att utveckla en förståelse för varför allmänna attribut tillfälligt anläggs i nya stadsdelar. Studien syftar även till att kartlägga hur utvalda aktörer arbetar med tillfälligt anlagda attribut samt vilka värden aktörerna vill skapa med hjälp av dessa. Studiens resultat baseras på intervjuer med tolv branschrepresentanter. Resultaten visar på att både kommuner och byggaktörer tillfälligt anlägger olika allmänna attribut i nya stadsdelar, däremot i en varierande omfattning. Författarna presenterar idéen att allmänna attribut kan delas in i två kategorier utifrån hur viktiga och vanligt förekommande de är i nya stadsdelar. I arbetet klassificeras dessa kategorier som nödvändiga attribut samt bonus-attribut. Motiven till att anlägga tillfälliga attribut är för att det vid tidpunkten ej går att anlägga dem permanent. Samtidigt behöver både kommuner och byggaktörer tillgodose boendes behov av allmänna platser redan från första inflytt och göra stadsdelen både levande och trygg. Tidigare studier visar på att det i befintliga stadsdelar finns en betalningsvilja för att från sin bostad ha närhet till permanenta allmänna attribut. Resultaten i den här studien visar på att både byggaktörer och kommuner anser att detta även gäller i nya stadsdelar, oavsett om attributen är permanenta eller tillfälliga. Slutligen lyfts placemaking fram som en användbar metod för att möjliggöra att ytterligare värde skapas från de anlagda attributen. Genom att skapa mer värde blir stadsdelen attraktivare och efterfrågan på bostäder i stadsdelen kan öka ytterligare. / Urban development projects are often large, complex and takes a long time to be completed. In these large development projects, the project is often divided into different stages, which can result in unused spaces. Some actors have begun using these unused spaces in order to parallel with the development create value. By building temporary amenities, and in some cases working with placemaking, the actors aim to create attractive places that bring value for the inhabitants and visitors in the city district. Earlier studies have not looked at how temporary amenities impact and affect urban development projects. It is therefore interesting to research the motives and effect of these amenities in the city district. The aim for this study is to create a better understanding of why these temporary amenities are being built in urban development projects, and what value they are deemed to bring to the project and the actors who build them. The study also reaches out to some selected actors and maps what kind of temporary amenities, if any, they have worked with and what values these amenities create. The results of the study are based on interviews with twelve industry representatives. The result indicates that both construction clients and municipalities both use temporary amenities in large urban development projects, but to a varying degree. The authors claim the amenities can be categorized into two types, necessary-amenities and bonus-amenities, based on how important and commonly occurring they are. The motive to build temporary amenities is that it is simply not possible to build the amenities in a permanent manner at the time. But even though it is not possible to build permanent amenities the municipality and construction clients still need to accommodate early inhabitants and create good conditions for a safe and vibrant living environment. Earlier studies have concluded that permanent amenities raise the willingness to pay resulting in a higher price. This study also acknowledges that construction clients and municipalities also deem this true in new development projects, whether the amenities are permanent or temporary. Lastly, placemaking is recognized as a method to further create value of the built amenities in the city district, and that this can further increase the value amenities create and make the amenities even more desired for potential customers, and thus increase the demand on housing in the urban development project even further.

The diploma thesis deals with village settlements in the Czech Republic. First, the term village and other related terms are defined. The village is perceived from the point of view of legislation and spatial planning. The introductory part also includes a description of the historical development and structure of the villages and mentions folk architecture. The main part of the work is focused on the current state of Czech villages. There is a general analysis covering areas such as public space, public amenities, green, transport, monuments, or new development. The analysis was applied to villages located in the administrative district of the municipality with extended powers of Kroměříž and to the municipality of Rataje. Based on the findings, it evaluates villages and outlines the possibilities for their future development.

La nouveauté du droit de l’aménagement résulte du renouveau de son objet et de ses enjeux. L’élargissement des finalités d’urbanisme et les restrictions budgétaires des collectivités locales ont rendu nécessaire l’établissement d’un partenariat avec le secteur privé en matière d’aménagement. La logique induite de la réalisation d’une action ou opération d’aménagement s’est dès lors diffusée au sein de l’urbanisme réglementaire et relègue au second plan son origine policière. La mise de la règle au service du projet d’aménagement et la négociation du financement privé des équipements publics par la conclusion d’un projet urbain partenarial rendent floue la frontière des catégories de l’acte unilatéral et du contrat. Une gouvernance horizontale des rapports entre l’administration compétente et les pétitionnaires tend ainsi à se substituer à une logique de commandement. Toutefois, le régime juridique des concessions d’aménagement est actuellement déterminé, sous l’influence du droit communautaire, par ses procédures de dévolution liées à l’existence d’un risque économique à la charge du concessionnaire. Or, cet état du droit est inadapté à la pratique de l’aménagement d’initiative publique. Le risque est inhérent à l’activité économique d’aménagement et ne peut donc constituer un critère d’identification des « concessions publiques » et des « marchés publics » d’aménagement. La complexité et la flexibilité de l’objet d’aménagement nécessitent une appréhension globale que n’autorise pas l’encadrement jurisprudentiel des modifications des contrats de la commande publique. Cependant, l’assimilation de l’objet de la concession à un service d’intérêt économique général permettrait d’élaborer un régime juridique adéquat. Son enjeu économique et sa procédure de dévolution dépendraient étroitement des obligations de service public mises à la charge de l’aménageur. La dimension économique du traité permettrait d’élaborer un régime juridique d’exécution contractuelle fondé sur les risques d’aménagement. / Because of the renewal of its object and purposes, public planning law has been under some changes. Both the enlargement of town-planning public order’s purposes and the constrictions of local municipalities budgets have rendered compelling the development of partnerships with the private sector. The very logic of planning’s action or operation subsequently infused town-planning law and contributed to the relegation of its regulatory origin. The boundary between unilateral act and contract is getting blurred both by a public norm serving planning project and the negotiation of private funding for public amenities by the conclusion of an urban partnership project. The hierarchical logic pertaining to the relationship between the administrative body and its petitioners progressively shifted as horizontal governance. However, the legal regime of public planning concessions – under the influence of E.U. law – is currently organized by awarding proceedings triggered by the existence of an economical risk. Yet this regime does not suit publicly initiated planning activities. The risk is inherent in every economical planning activity, and, as a consequence, cannot thus discriminate between “planning public concessions” and “planning public contracts”. Both complexity and flexibility of planning projects advocate for a compulsory global understanding that is not permitted by a jurisprudential regulation of the changes in the public procurement agreement. Nevertheless, the legal assimilation of the object of a concession to a service of general economic interest would permit the elaboration of a more suitable legal regime. Its economical purpose and awarding proceeding would strictly rely on the developer’s public service requirements. The economical dimension of the treaty would permit the elaboration of a legal regime of contractual performance based on the risks of planning.