Until recently it has been usual in the Netherlands for local authorities to acquire land for development, to prepare it for building, and then make building lots available through sale or leasehold. In the 1990s housing production shifted from social housing to owner-occupied housing. Project...

Dutch local authorities used to acquire land long before urban development of the land took place. Recently, private development companies have become active in the Dutch land market. The public monopoly of the land market has been transformed into private monopolies of the building market. One...

The aim of this paper is to increase the knowledge about industrial land and floor space forecasting. From the rare research on this subject it is known that the knowledge about factors that influence demand and techniques that model demand is not available in abundance. However, different kinds...

During the last few decades mixed-use development has become an important planning paradigm in various European and North American cities. However, the concept of mixed-use is ambiguous in both theory and practice. In this paper a typology of mixed-use developments is revealed to identify its...

The effects of investments in infrastructure on local and regional economic development have long been the subject of scientific debate. An issue in this debate is whether the construction of new infrastructure between core and peripheral regions induces economic benefits in these regions or...

Public policies for land use include many rules and regulations. Changing those policies usually means changing rules. Institutional economics studies the effects of rules on economic behaviour and how of those rules change under economic forces. Therefore, economic theories of institutional...

Most studies on firm relocation focus on firms that did relocate. The reasons why they moved and why they settled somewhere else, are always seen as the location factors. The assumption behind this is that firms which did relocate assessed their former location unfavourable compared to their...

L<sc>ouw</sc> E., <sc>van der</sc> K<sc>rabben</sc> E. and <sc>van</sc> A<sc>msterdam</sc> H. The spatial productivity of industrial land, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper presents a theoretical approach to analysing the concept of spatial productivity and the meaning of land as a production factor in regional science. It presents the results...

In regional science the interest in spatial distribution of productivity is focussed on labour productivity. In our research we focus on another important production factor that is land. By planning local authorities allocate land to different categories of land use. As part of research on the...