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Architecture and freedom
Author(s) -
Gillis John
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00126
Subject(s) - coercion (linguistics) , democracy , architecture , property (philosophy) , property rights , law and economics , business , law , sociology , political science , epistemology , geography , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology , politics
The degree of freedom or coercion in society affects the ability to build buildings and to create architecture of distinction. This paper explores the ways in which modern democratic societies have reduced classic property rights, and thus reduced an owner or developer's ability to build as he judges best for his own needs or his customers. A brief description is given of free market alternatives to existing statist regulatory approaches to property and land‐use regulation.