The existing management of property restrictions and responsibilities poses a major barrier to achieving sustainable land management. Administrative responses have concentrated on organising information rather than achieving the original policy objectives of good land management. Disparate management of individual restrictions has made it extremely difficult to develop and evaluate the effects ...

“The process of formulating and implementing land policies is not only politically and technically difficult, it can also be costly. However, the costs of not formulating and implementing them are much higher” (Dowall, David & Clark Giles, 1997). Cities do not develop according to planners’ wishes – to the contrary, in the present and past, cities have always shown their own dynamic of developm...