Urban land markets : economic concepts and tools for engaging in Africa
Kihato, Caroline Wanjiku et al.
This handbook is intended for use by people in government, private firms and nongovernmental organisations involved in the fields of housing, urban planning, engineering, architecture and related areas. It provides a basis for strengthening urban policy in ways that enable poorer people in African cities to access well-located living and work spaces. The reader of this handbook should come away with an understanding of how interventions affect the market, and also how markets affect, enable, constrain and shape interventions by governments, developers, traditional authorities, banks, micro-lenders or any of its actors. It provides a sense of the dynamics of the urban land market how particular decisions in one sector affect other sectors. This understanding provides practitioners in the field with a framework to make more informed decisions when formulating policies or making recommendations. Understanding the urban land market is like putting together a puzzle. It requires searching for clues and piecing together bits that do not quite seem to fit like putting together pieces from different jigsaw puzzles without always knowing whether each piece is exactly in its place or what the final puzzle will look like.
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