Land readjustment: A tool for urban development

Joint development or land readjustment can be an important tool for developing new land or reorganising urban areas. The landowners collectively leave land for streets and other public places, build the required infrastructure wholly or partly and adapt existing boundaries to the new plan. The new building sites are distributed according to area or value of land inputs. The paper describes methods and uses in different countries and discusses advantages, problems and possibilities for future methodological developments.