International experience of public infrastructure delivery in support of housing growth

International experience of public infrastructure delivery in support of housing growth

Gallent, Nick (University College London (UCL))
Morphet, Janice (University College London (UCL))
Chiu, Rebecca L.H. (The University of Hong Kong)
Filion, Pierre (University of Waterloo)
Fischer, Karl Friedhelm (University of Kassel)
Gurran, Nicole (University of Sydney)
Li, Pengfei (The University of Hong Kong)
Schwartz, Alex (The New School)
Stead, D. (TU Delft Spatial Planning and Strategy)

2020

This paper compares planning and funding arrangements for public infrastructure delivery in support of new housing development in the UK, Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada, the US, and Hong Kong/Mainland China. It examines the roles and responsibilities of different levels of government, the extraction of financial contributions from the development process (mainly funded through increases in land value), and the level of involvement of private and public actors in infrastructure delivery and land value capture (LVC). Three linked questions provide a basis for comparison of the cases: first, what arrangements are in place, in terms of planning hierarchy and responsibility, for coordinating infrastructure delivery (and how do these relate to funding arrangements); second, how are local contributions extracted from the development process or through the acquisition and sale of land; and lastly, what inferences can be drawn regarding the relative power of public and private actors in this process and to what extent is public interest prioritized/served through prevailing approaches to value extraction. The paper contributes international experience to debates on optimizing planning approaches for infrastructure delivery while maximizing public benefit from land value.

Funding arrangements
Housing provision
Infrastructure
International comparison
Land-use planning

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:44f22118-b861-4d21-aa52-0c359b82039c

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2020.102920

2021-03-08

0264-2751

Cities: the international journal of urban policy and planning, 107

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© 2020 Nick Gallent, Janice Morphet, Rebecca L.H. Chiu, Pierre Filion, Karl Friedhelm Fischer, Nicole Gurran, Pengfei Li, Alex Schwartz, D. Stead