Promotion of "Generative Places" based on Municipal economic and financial sustainability

• Type: Article in International Conference Proceedings Book
• Date: 2015

Authors

Emília Malcata Rebelo (Author) FEUP

Conference proceedings International

Title: CITTA 8th Annual Conference on Planning Research, ¿Bridging the implementation gap of Accessibility Instruments and Planning Support Systems

Pages: 1-10

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Social sciences > Geography > Economic geography ; Social sciences ; Social sciences > Geography > Social geography

FOS: Social sciences ; Social sciences > Social and economic geography

Other information

Abstract (EN): The research reported in this article aims at assessing how territorial management instruments applied at the municipal level can allocate for the social interest the land unearned increments that stem from public decisions concerning the implementation of territorial plans and/or changes in land uses or land use intensities. If, on the one hand, the characteristics of the physical spaces ¿ that result from public, private and/or community decisions ¿ set the conditions for local peoples´ everyday life, the municipality shall vest economic and financial sustainability conditions that are able to support peoples´ quality of life, on the other. Thus territorial management instruments applied at the local level shall be able to manage the physical, social and cultural spaces in a balanced way. And to pursue this goal, these instruments shall be designed to recover the land unearned increments engendered by public decisions that, instead of finishing at private landowners hands, should better go back to that municipality´s population. So the new territorial management instrument herein proposed consists in charging landowners/promoters a 20% fee on land surplus-values that result from the assignment by urban plans of specific building capacities to certain urban interventions. The proposed methodology is applied to the Urban Development Plan of the Planning Unit 11 of the municipality of Lagoa, located in the Algarve, Portugal. This new territorial management instrument may be easily applied to other municipalities, within the scope of the application of different kinds of urban plans. It ensures that the surplus-values they engender are pointed to social purposes. And it further supports municipal economic and financial sustainability based on a strategic and integrated planning perspective.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 10