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Owning the city : property rights in authoritarian regimes / Marsha McGraw Olive.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Olive, Marsha McGraw, author.
- Series:
- Understanding Europe: The Council for European Studies book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Authoritarianism.
- Land tenure (Customary law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (202 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Agenda Publishing, [2022]
- Summary:
- Privately-held property (land and buildings) and the growth of the propertied middle class presents an anomaly in authoritarian states. This book unravels the puzzle that is the growth of private property in tandem with political support for authoritarian regimes.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Dedication Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of figures and tables
- 1 Introduction and argument
- 2 Globally successful cities
- States in the limelight
- Globalization and urbanization bring cities to the fore
- What is a successful city?
- Technology makes cities smarter - or does it?
- Success is in the eye of the beholder
- Why are top-ranked cities mainly in liberal democracies?
- Historical influences
- Economic influences
- Institutional influences
- Summary
- 3 Urban political economy in historical perspective
- Rights versus privileges
- Revolutionary features of medieval European cities
- Market towns versus capitalist cities
- From economy back to democracy
- Eurasian differences: evolution of Russian cities and property rights
- The Soviet legacy
- 4 Urban land governance: liberal and illiberal patterns
- Urban revolutions are institutional and spatial
- Land governance model in theory and practice
- Urban real property rights, and why they matter
- The regulatory environment, and why it matters
- Public participation in urban planning, and why it matters
- The urban transition from socialism to capitalism: spatial features of socialist cities
- Liberal and illiberal traditions after 1989
- Privatization of real estate in the urban transition to capitalism
- How real property privatization and planning are transforming CEE cities
- A preliminary look at land governance in post-socialist cities
- The political economy of land governance and the role of EU policy
- 5 Cautionary tale: Moscow
- The weight of the past, the perils of the present
- A decade of disarray, a decade of some progress
- Land governance in Moscow under Mayor Luzhkov
- Urban real property rights
- The regulatory environment.
- Public participation in urban planning
- Land governance in Moscow under Mayor Sobyanin
- The regulatory environment
- Public participation in urban planning
- Urban development and economic development
- Urban renewal and political renewal
- 6 Cautionary tale: Istanbul
- Whose property is it?
- Real property rights in the Ottoman era
- Kemalism, political development and property rights
- Urban land governance from the Second World War to the Erdoğan era
- Land governance in Istanbul: Erdoğan era
- 7 Conclusions and prognosis
- Competition is between cities, not just countries
- Historical urban patterns provide clues to modern regime differences
- The transition of socialist cities to capitalism is incomplete
- Turkey: different development path, similar outcome
- Modern patterns: the land governance model
- Better urban land governance is needed everywhere
- Liberal regimes
- Hybrid regimes
- Authoritarian regimes
- Closing considerations
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781788214704
- 1788214706
- OCLC:
- 1338197785
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