Property Development and Land Use Planning Regulations in Nigeria

The Effects of Land-use Regulations on Property Values

Land-use regulations can affect property values in a variety of complex ways. In the context of laws like Oregon’s Measure 37, requiring that landowners be compensated if regulations reduce property values, the economic effects of land use regulations on property values have been widely misinterpreted because two very different economic concepts are being confused and used interchangeably. The ...

Compactness for Regionalization and its Application in Land-Use Planning

Land Use Planning for Sustainable Development

Initially, some notions on sustainable development are dealt with. Since its inception as the new development paradigm there has been a clear shift from a conservation-based ideology to a more development-oriented understanding. Consequently, the parallel development of different perceptions on land use planning is discussed. The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro (1992) and the publication of...

Land Use Regulations and Fertility Rates

Previous literature has shown that land use regulations influence where people choose to live within the U.S. by impacting housing prices. In this paper, we study the impact of these same regulations on another component of population growth, fertility rates. First, we employ a dataset on the stringency of land restrictions using court based measures created by Ganong and Shoag (2017). We add t...

Comparison of Tourism Placement and Development Models from Land Use Planning perspective in Zagros Forests Case Study: Javanrud County

While in recent years, due to numerous reasons, the amount of travel and tourism has increased, the amount of problems caused by this activity is also considered by managers. By using presence points of tourists in Javanrud County, Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and Random Forest (RF) models, the conditions of establishment of tourists from the aspect of land use planning was investigated. In...