China's rapid urbanization and urban development has consumed a lot of land resources,
which has attracted a great deal of both scholarly and social attention. However, the …

China's urbanization has reshaped landscapes, economies, and societies nationwide at
unprecedented paces, yet inconsistent march among these processes has resulted in …

We construct a simple model of a city with heterogeneous agents and housing choice to
explain the determinants of slums, home to about one-third of the urban population in …

The serious social and environmental problems and risks associated with large-scale
urbanization in Africa are widely recognized. However, the potential for urbanization to …

The momentum of urbanization and its impacts are so massive that we must face up to this
trend. In view of the existing cognitive, technical, economic and institutional path …

This article presents a systematic review of the literature and directions for future research
on property rights in informal settlements. This research meets the academy's strategic …

China's dual land ownership structure creates distinctive land markets in rural and urban
areas, and the issue of ambiguous property rights systems is theoretically regarded as a …

Government is the custodian of the most critical (and limited) factor of production, namely,
land. Assuring the security of tenure, arbitrating disputes, and facilitating the transfer or sales …

This paper studies slum growth in Brazilian cities by estimating a spatial equilibrium model
with two types of households and two types of housing. I explain the positive correlation …

Agricultural land is a main component of the environment and ecological system. Therefore,
this study employs the panel cointegration approach to investigate the dynamic relationship …