Land use, Development Planning and Sustainability

With the theme Land use, Development Planning and Sustainability, our research focusses on the transformation of space and associated implications for wellbeing. The topics discussed include, amongst others, amenities and the effect of natural attractiveness on house prices, planning and anticipation of capitalization in house prices and sustainable transformation.

Planning and development as the process of structuring future land use relate to the evaluation of distributional consequences of plans in terms of population, employment, urban housing and transportation. The rise in the world’s population that lives in urban areas makes sustainability in planning and development of real estate to be the most important challenge for the future.