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    How to deal with projects

    How to Deal with Projects that Involve Forced Evictions and Displacement

    Manuals & Guidelines
    January, 2010
    Global
    Land & Investments
    land policies
    urban planning
    displacement
    housing rights
    local communities

    This guide summarizes international human rights standards applicable to involuntary displacement caused by public and private infrastructure and urbanization projects. It provides guidance for all involved parties: urban planners and architects, public authorities, the legal community, national or international financing entities, governments, civil society, and affected populations. It aims to provide guidance to assist in the execution of development projects that respect, protect and fulfil the human right to adequate housing of the communities that will be affected by them.

  2. Library Resource
    Zoning Regulation as Land Use Control Instrument

    Zoning Regulation as Land Use Control Instrument

    Lesson Learned from United States of America and Singapore

    Peer-reviewed publication
    September, 2010
    United States of America, Indonesia, Singapore
    Land & Investments
    Urban Tenure
    land law
    land-use planning
    urban planning
    zoning
    land use
    land use change
    control rights

    One of local government authorities is the implementation of land use planning. Due to implementation land use planning, controlling is needed as effort for the implementation is appropriate with the planning. According to Spatial Planning Act No.26/2007, land use control instruments are zoning regulation, permit, incentive and disincentive, and sanction. In Indonesia, zoning regulation is new instrument and only a few of city that have made and uses zoning regulation as land use control instrument.

  3. Library Resource
    Compulsory Acquisition of Land in Singapore

    Compulsory Acquisition of Land in Singapore

    A Fair Regime?

    Peer-reviewed publication
    December, 2010
    Singapore
    Land & Investments
    land law
    property law
    common law
    statute law
    land acquisitions
    compensation
    compulsory acquisitions
    state property
    landowners

    This article outlines the legislative history of the Land Acquisition Act (Cap 152, 1985 Rev Ed) and the philosophy behind the legislation. The main thrust of the article is its analysis of the circumstances leading to the amendments to the Land Acquisition Act. In so doing, it also examines the development of the compensation framework and its implications for landowners. A number of landmark cases on interesting issues have also been referred to and these serve to illustrate the changing paradigms of the State and the landowners with the passage of the laws on compulsory acquisition.

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