Event

Guest Lecturer Series Our Common Ground: The Power of the Land

  • Conférencier  Dirk Löhr, Hochschule Trier

  • Lieu

    Campus Belval, Maison des Sciences Humaines

    11, porte des Sciences

    L-4365, Esch-sur-Alzette, LU

Guest Lecturer Series 2019/2020 in Geography and Spatial Planning

OUR COMMON GROUND: The political economy of land property, and prospects for a post-growth society

Current debates on finite resources, on social inequalities resulting from financialised real estate markets, on biodiversity loss, or on the impact of land use on climate change have one thing in common: Sooner or later, they all problematise the question of land property, and increasingly question the prevalence of private ownership and speculation. In many countries, the decreasing share of public land has drastically reduced the capacity of local authorities or communities to decide upon and steer land-use patterns in a way that serves the common good. The lecture series “Our Common Ground” aims at discussing current development trends and their underlying mechanisms, as it strives to present innovative policy responses and progressive planning approaches in different European contexts.