"At the interplay between property and planning using an economic lens, this text forms a novel approach in seeking to expose the student to complementarities between these disciplines"- Professor Stanley McGreal, Ulster University, Northern Ireland
1. Introduction to future value: the economics of property and planning 2. Economists and economic problems in property and planning 3. Resources and scarcity in property and planning 4. Microeconomics: market forces and markets 5. Macroeconomics in the economics of property and planning 6. Spatial and locational approaches in the economics of property and planning 7. Market failure, externalities, and efficiencies in property and planning 8. Housing and neighbourhood in the economics of property and planning 9. Fiscal approaches and value capture in the economics of property and planning 10. Infrastructure economics in property and planning 11. Climate change, environmental limits to economic growth, sustainability, and resilience 12. Measuring value in the economics of property and planning 13. Policy and new directions in the economics of property and planning
Graham Squires [BA (Hons), PG(Cert)THLE, MA, FHEA, MRICS, PhD] is an International Economist, Geographer, and Planner with expertise in Property and Housing. He is the author of six books and has written over 100 peer-review journals, conference papers, grant-funded reports, and book chapters. He has lectured in the United Kingdom at The University of Manchester, UWE Bristol, and Birmingham University. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, University of Illinois, and Delft University. Graham is President-Elect of the Pacific Rim Real Estate Society (PRRES), and council member of the New Zealand Association of Economists (NZAE). He is a Fulbright Scholar, CEO of The Property Foundation, and Member of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (MRICS). Graham is currently a professor in the School of Economics and Finance, Massey University, New Zealand.