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100	1		_a Amitabh _929470
245	1	0	_aUrban land markets and land price changes : _ba study in the Third World context / _cby Amitabh.
260			_aAldershot, Hants, England ; _aBrookfield, USA : _bAshgate, _cc1997.
300			_axii, 311 p.
500			_aRevision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Cambridge, 1994).
505			_aPart 1 Introduction: urban land markets in Third World cities; urban land market research in India; land delivery to low income group households; state intervention and urban land markets; are land prices increasing in Third World urban land markets?; major research issues-- Part 2 Land tenure, economic characteristics and urbanization in India: the nature of the land tenure system in India; demographic, economic and political characteristics of modern India; urban growth and development policies in India - major patterns of urbanization in India, the million-cities of India-- Part 3 Lucknow city urban developments and housing demand: introduction to Lucknow city; population growth in Lucknow city; employment structures in Lucknow city; urban expansion in Lucknow city - expansions in the territorial jurisdiction of Lucknow city, horizontal expansion in built-up areas; the role of the municipal corporation limit in urban expansion; residential land use in Lucknow city; administrative structures in Lucknow city; demand for housing in Lucknow city; conclusion-- Part 4 Changing dynamics of the urban land market in Lucknow city: access to land for housing in Lucknow city; major shifts in the urban land markets in Lucknow city; land delivery agents in Lucknow city; land supply trends in lucknow city - land supply trends in the 1970s, land supply trends in the 1980s; conclusion-- Part 5 Data problems, methodological issues and the selection of study colonies: primary data sources - the household survey, constraints upon data collection; study colonies/settlements - limitations in the selection process of study colonies; interviews with some "managers and gatekeepers"; secondary data sources - data from newspaper advertisements, data from the Land Registration Department, conversion of land prices into constant prices; data analysis-- Part 6 Land price changes in Lucknow city, 1970-1990: land price changes in Indian cities; land price changes in Lucknow city - land price changes at the city-wide level, four types of land prices; land price changes in high income group sub-divisions - four types of land prices in five high income group colonies; study colonies and household land price trends - land price changes by the three sectors of land delivery, land price changes by the colony income groups, land price trends by individual colonies; conclusions-- Part 7 Determinants of land price changes in Lucknow city: distance from the city centre and land price variations; demand and supply mechanisms and land price changes; possible determinants of land price changes - decentralization of city centres and land price changes, plot size and land price changes; acquired qualities of land and land price changes - urban planning, land development legislation. (Part contents).
520			_aFocusing on urban housing problems in Third World cities, this text examines land markets at both macro and micro-levels. It examines the trends, determinants and implications of residential real land price changes in the city of Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh State, India.
650		0	_aLand use, Urban _zIndia _zLucknow. _929471
650		0	_aReal property _xPrices _zIndia _zLucknow. _929472
650		0	_aHousing _zIndia _zLucknow. _929473
650		0	_aLand use, Urban _zIndia. _929474
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