Post-reform urban conditions -- Establishing the land market -- Establishing the housing market -- Market configuration and actors in urban development -- State, governance, and land management -- Changing city planning : from resource allocation to place promotion -- Entrepreneurial city and...

Land use and land cover change has a slow but prolonged impact on various aspects of environment on local, regional and global scales. In developing countries especially population pressure and food demand have compelled conversion of wetlands to built-up and agricultural lands. One such unique...