Nothing Special   »   [go: up one dir, main page]
IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/wbk/wbrwps/1477.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Cities without land markets : location and land use in the socialist city

Author

Listed:
  • Bertaud, Alain
  • Renaud, Bertrand
Abstract
The authors describe the structure of Russian cities after 70 years of Soviet development. This is the longest socialist experience on record and its results are of paramount interest to urban economists. In the absence of price signals and of economic incentives to recycle land over time, the administrative-command process has led to a startling pattern of land use. It's central feature is a perverse population density gradient, which rises as one moves away from the center of the city. (Driving from the center of Moscow, one passes through rings of Stalin-era, Krushchev-era, and then Brezhnev-era flats.) The Soviet city is also characterized by rusting factories in prime locations and high density residential areas in distant suburbs. Such a structure tends to maximize the economic and social inefficiency of the socialist city as well as its environmental ill effects. With market-oriented urban reform, real estate prices are now emerging. Their negative gradient signals again the massive scale of past land misallocation in the Soviet city. The experience of socialist cities is also a powerful warning about the ill effects of public ownership and the allocation of land to achieve the"socialization"of land rents.

Suggested Citation

  • Bertaud, Alain & Renaud, Bertrand, 1995. "Cities without land markets : location and land use in the socialist city," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1477, The World Bank.
    • Handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:1477
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/1995/06/01/000009265_3961019123125/Rendered/PDF/multi_page.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Phillip J Bryson & Gary C Cornia & Gloria E Wheeler, 2004. "Fiscal Decentralization in the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Comparative Study of Moral Hazard," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 22(1), pages 103-113, February.
    2. Eduard K. Trutnev & William Valletta & Mikhail O. Yakoubov, 2004. "Progress and Problems in Reforming Urban Land Use and Development Regulation in the Russian Federation," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 41(7), pages 1269-1282, June.
    3. Irina Starodubrovskaya & Margarita Slavgorodskaya & Sergey Zhavoronkov, 2004. "Organization of Local Self Governance in the Cities of Federal Level," Research Paper Series, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, issue 87P, pages 151-151.
    4. Galal, Ahmed & Razzaz, Omar, 2001. "Reforming land and real estate markets," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2616, The World Bank.
    5. Duebel, Hans-Joachim & Brzeski, W. Jan & Hamilton, Ellen, 2006. "Rental choice and housing policy realignment in transition : post-privatization challenges in the Europe and Central Asia region," Policy Research Working Paper Series 3884, The World Bank.
    6. Elena Koncheva & Nikolay Zalesskiy, 2016. "Spatial Development of the Largest Russian Cities During the Post-Soviet Period: Orienting Towards Transit or Maintaining Soviet Trends," HSE Working papers WP BRP 04/URB/2016, National Research University Higher School of Economics.
    7. Dejana Nedučin & Milena Krklješ, 2022. "Culture-Led Regeneration of Industrial Brownfield Hosting Temporary Uses: A Post-Socialist Context–Case Study from Novi Sad, Serbia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(23), pages 1-26, December.
    8. Sock-Yong Phang & David Lee & Alan Cheong & Kok-Fai Phoon & Karol Wee, 2014. "Housing Policies In Singapore: Evaluation Of Recent Proposals And Recommendations For Reform," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 59(03), pages 1-14.
    9. Urmi Sengupta, 2013. "Inclusive Development? A State-Led Land Development Model in New Town, Kolkata," Environment and Planning C, , vol. 31(2), pages 357-376, April.
    10. Steven Plaut & Egita Uzulena, 2006. "Architectural Design and the Value of Housing in Riga, Latvia," International Real Estate Review, Global Social Science Institute, vol. 9(1), pages 112-131.
    11. Ingram, Gregory K., 1997. "Patterns of metropolitan development : what have we learned?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1841, The World Bank.
    12. Kim, Annette M., 2007. "North versus South: The Impact of Social Norms in the Market Pricing of Private Property Rights in Vietnam," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 35(12), pages 2079-2095, December.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wbk:wbrwps:1477. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Roula I. Yazigi (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/dvewbus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.