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Applying Communal Theories To Urban Property: An Anthropological Look At Using The Elaboration Of Common Property Regimes To Reduce Social Exclusion From Housing Markets, Dylan O. Malagrino
Applying Communal Theories To Urban Property: An Anthropological Look At Using The Elaboration Of Common Property Regimes To Reduce Social Exclusion From Housing Markets, Dylan O. Malagrino
Dylan Malagrinò
The advantages of privatized property regimes and common property regimes have been debated in legal and economic discourse for ages. Although private property is prevalent in the developed world, a reading of the available anthropological literature shows that common property regimes still thrive in many parts of the developing world to maintain natural resources and to spread the risk of property ownership.
Considering the recent U.S. housing crisis and its global effect on world markets, perhaps the developed world should incorporate more communal theories to—what has now become the developed world‘s scarce resource—urban land. In fact, after a close look …