Lawrence WC Lai
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5158732 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lawrence WC Lai |
| PRENOMES | Lawrence WC |
| SOBRENOME | Lai |
| ASSINATURA | LAI L W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2013 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Reinterpreting the Kowloon Walled City
The Kowloon Walled City (City), as curated to the world in the media, emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as the world’s most densely populated and “lawless” neighbourhood, but was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for a public park. It was institutionally unique: de jure once a Chinese exclave in Hong Kong under jurisdictional dispute, but a territory where few of Hong Kong’s and none of China’s laws or regulations were enforced. What resulte…
The effects of ‘publicness’ and quality of publicly accessible open space upon user satisfaction
There is a worldwide trend for planning bodies to allow, require, or encourage developers to provide open spaces in their properties for public enjoyment to complement the open spaces on government lands. The two types of privately owned open space and government-owned open space, both accessible to public, can influence on people’s quality of life. Whether and how the land ownership of open spaces would influence their performance and, in turn, …
Farms are not zoos
This paper explains the importance of distinguishing de facto from de jure property rights, confused by some economists, in heritage conservation planning. A comparative study on three Hong Kong examples of British colonial military buildings is used to show how neither de jure private property rights nor de facto close access is a solution to the problem of open access to heritage buildings. Also, a government museum is only a partial solution t…
Creation of property rights in planning by contract and edict
This article advances the proposition that the creation of property rights, whether by contract-upon-negotiation or edict, is far more significant than what has been described as “ Coasian bargaining” in effecting sustainable development. By “creation” we intend the neo-institutional economist’s sense of establishing a degree of exclusive property rights for common property or devising new contractual arrangements in which private property rights…
As planning is everything, it is good for something!” A Coasian economic taxonomy of modes of planning
Against two extreme forms of thinking, which have influenced planning theory, this article argues, in the context of a looming amount of literature generated in a movement for private planning, that the distinction between private planning and public planning is a valid one, but one in need of tweaking. However, the plan–market dichotomy (i.e. the assumption that state and private planning is mutually exclusive) is fallacious. Informed by the neo…
The Fourth Coase Theorem
This article elucidates a novel and powerful Fourth Coase Theorem using Coase’s own reasoning and extending the First Coase Theorem. It holds that state rules, which include, but are not limited to, property rights, can enlarge a market. This theorem lends support to state planning insofar as it establishes rules that enable and promote market transactions and illuminates the operation of the market’s spontaneity, subject to constraints. Seven co…
Transaction cost reduction and innovations for spontaneous cities
In urban spatial economic analysis, two largely disjunctive pro-market approaches influenced by Ronald Coase and Joseph Schumpeter have emerged in the discussion of spontaneous cities. They are transaction cost–based Coasian analysis and innovation-based Schumpeterian analysis. As an original attempt to contribute to planning theory using Coasian and Schumpeterian economic concepts, this article reviews the relevant literature, elucidates the con…
As planning is everything, it is good for something!” A Coasian economic taxonomy of modes of planning
Against two extreme forms of thinking, which have influenced planning theory, this article argues, in the context of a looming amount of literature generated in a movement for private planning, that the distinction between private planning and public planning is a valid one, but one in need of tweaking. However, the plan–market dichotomy (i.e. the assumption that state and private planning is mutually exclusive) is fallacious. Informed by the neo…
The Fourth Coase Theorem
This article elucidates a novel and powerful Fourth Coase Theorem using Coase’s own reasoning and extending the First Coase Theorem. It holds that state rules, which include, but are not limited to, property rights, can enlarge a market. This theorem lends support to state planning insofar as it establishes rules that enable and promote market transactions and illuminates the operation of the market’s spontaneity, subject to constraints. Seven co…
Transaction cost reduction and innovations for spontaneous cities
In urban spatial economic analysis, two largely disjunctive pro-market approaches influenced by Ronald Coase and Joseph Schumpeter have emerged in the discussion of spontaneous cities. They are transaction cost–based Coasian analysis and innovation-based Schumpeterian analysis. As an original attempt to contribute to planning theory using Coasian and Schumpeterian economic concepts, this article reviews the relevant literature, elucidates the con…
Creation of property rights in planning by contract and edict
This article advances the proposition that the creation of property rights, whether by contract-upon-negotiation or edict, is far more significant than what has been described as “ Coasian bargaining” in effecting sustainable development. By “creation” we intend the neo-institutional economist’s sense of establishing a degree of exclusive property rights for common property or devising new contractual arrangements in which private property rights…
Farms are not zoos
This paper explains the importance of distinguishing de facto from de jure property rights, confused by some economists, in heritage conservation planning. A comparative study on three Hong Kong examples of British colonial military buildings is used to show how neither de jure private property rights nor de facto close access is a solution to the problem of open access to heritage buildings. Also, a government museum is only a partial solution t…
The Fourth Coase Theorem
This article elucidates a novel and powerful Fourth Coase Theorem using Coase’s own reasoning and extending the First Coase Theorem. It holds that state rules, which include, but are not limited to, property rights, can enlarge a market. This theorem lends support to state planning insofar as it establishes rules that enable and promote market transactions and illuminates the operation of the market’s spontaneity, subject to constraints. Seven co…
Transaction cost reduction and innovations for spontaneous cities
In urban spatial economic analysis, two largely disjunctive pro-market approaches influenced by Ronald Coase and Joseph Schumpeter have emerged in the discussion of spontaneous cities. They are transaction cost–based Coasian analysis and innovation-based Schumpeterian analysis. As an original attempt to contribute to planning theory using Coasian and Schumpeterian economic concepts, this article reviews the relevant literature, elucidates the con…
As planning is everything, it is good for something!” A Coasian economic taxonomy of modes of planning
Against two extreme forms of thinking, which have influenced planning theory, this article argues, in the context of a looming amount of literature generated in a movement for private planning, that the distinction between private planning and public planning is a valid one, but one in need of tweaking. However, the plan–market dichotomy (i.e. the assumption that state and private planning is mutually exclusive) is fallacious. Informed by the neo…
Creation of property rights in planning by contract and edict
This article advances the proposition that the creation of property rights, whether by contract-upon-negotiation or edict, is far more significant than what has been described as “ Coasian bargaining” in effecting sustainable development. By “creation” we intend the neo-institutional economist’s sense of establishing a degree of exclusive property rights for common property or devising new contractual arrangements in which private property rights…
Farms are not zoos
This paper explains the importance of distinguishing de facto from de jure property rights, confused by some economists, in heritage conservation planning. A comparative study on three Hong Kong examples of British colonial military buildings is used to show how neither de jure private property rights nor de facto close access is a solution to the problem of open access to heritage buildings. Also, a government museum is only a partial solution t…
The effects of ‘publicness’ and quality of publicly accessible open space upon user satisfaction
There is a worldwide trend for planning bodies to allow, require, or encourage developers to provide open spaces in their properties for public enjoyment to complement the open spaces on government lands. The two types of privately owned open space and government-owned open space, both accessible to public, can influence on people’s quality of life. Whether and how the land ownership of open spaces would influence their performance and, in turn, …
Reinterpreting the Kowloon Walled City
The Kowloon Walled City (City), as curated to the world in the media, emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as the world’s most densely populated and “lawless” neighbourhood, but was demolished in the early 1990s to make way for a public park. It was institutionally unique: de jure once a Chinese exclave in Hong Kong under jurisdictional dispute, but a territory where few of Hong Kong’s and none of China’s laws or regulations were enforced. What resulte…
Coase theorem (5 obras) · Economics (4 obras) · Microeconomics (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Property rights (4 obras) · Transaction cost (4 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Property (philosophy (3 obras) · Property Rights and Legal Doctrine (3 obras)