Contributions to build a theory of land value

The main objective of this research project is to contribute to construct a theory of urban land value, which accounts for the multiplicity of factors that affect the way land is valued in the city.
To achieve the main objective, the different proposed theories of value will be compared from anthropology with contemporary theories about land value, in order to base a state of the art of a new theory of land value.
With this objective, the ideas of political economy, of the classical tradition, on land value that serve as a theoretical and reference framework.
On the other hand, it is necessary to deconstruct the economist view of the value of urban land through a historical review and the reconstruction of an alternative look that allows see the gaps left by traditional economic theories of land value.
And in this way to understand, from another perspective, the urban transformations that take place currently in cities and identify other ways in which property ownership is presented land, beyond individual private property and as exchange commodity.

Faculty Supervisor:

Gabriel Fauveaud

Student:

Partner:

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Construction; Sustainability & the Environment; Other

University:

Université de Montréal

Program: