Boundary stones marking the conversion of state-owned farmland into private residential plots in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 2001. (Image by Prof. Annette M. Kim.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Annette M. Kim
MIT Course Number
11.467J / 4.257J / 17.550J
As Taught In
Spring 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course examines the theories and policy debates over who can own real property, how to communicate and enforce property rights, and the range of liberties that they confer. It explores alternative economic, political, and sociological perspectives of property rights and their policy and planning implications.