Building land paradox

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The concept of the building land paradox was first used by Benjamin Davy in 1996 and describes the paradoxical situation that the majority of municipalities could purely mathematically cover their building land requirements for residential and especially for indoor commercial areas (on reusable areas), but the trend towards building continues on the green field and thus dominated urban sprawl .

The locally occurring scarcity of building land does not result from a lack of building space, but from the lack of building space that meets the demand, i. H. demand, are appropriate. Reason is the one awarding construction right , without thereby building duties to connect, d. H. there are only limited possibilities to force the development of an unused area (indoors). On the other hand, households and companies prefer building land outdoors.

However, if every municipality in a region acts in this way, the competitive advantage over other municipalities is canceled out. In addition, the additional offer makes it even more difficult to market the inner-city building land.

This situation is also known as the “building land dilemma”. In the long term, this increases the costs for the infrastructure of the dispersed settlement structure.

literature

  • Benjamin Davy: Building land security: cause or solution of a spatial planning paradox . In: Journal for Administration . tape 21 , no. 2 , 1996, p. 193-208 .