Land rent and the urban space in contemporary capitalism

Vol. 37 No. 2 (2017)

Apr-Jun / 2017
Published February 26, 2020
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How to Cite

Pereira Almeida, Renan, and Roberto Luís de Melo Monte-Mór. 2017. “Land Rent and the Urban Space in Contemporary Capitalism”. Brazilian Journal of Political Economy 37 (2):417-36. https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-31572017v37n02a09.

Land rent and the urban space in contemporary capitalism

Renan Pereira Almeida
Doutorando em Economia pelo Centro de Desenvolvimento e Planejamento Regional da Faculdade de Ciências Econômicas da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Cedeplar-FACE /UFMG). Gerente de Regulação Tarifária na Arsae-MG.
Roberto Luís de Melo Monte-Mór
Professor Associado do Cedeplar (FACE /UFMG) e do Núcleo de Pós- -Graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Escola de Arquitetura da UFMG (NPGAU-EA/UFMG).
Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 37 No. 2 (2017), Apr-Jun / 2017, Pages 417-436

Abstract

This paper aims to expose and discuss which schools of economic thought are able of presenting formulations that dialogue with the spatial conformation of cities in contemporary capitalism. For this, it is based on a presentation of the assumptions of a traditional Neoclassical model of Urban Economics, followed by a critical appreciation of this model. From this critique, different views of the schools of economic thought are exposed in relation to the concept of land rent, which is understood as a category of analysis still useful to understand such a spatial structure, as well as the considerations about the particularities of the urban.

JEL classification: B2; B24; R1; R14; P48.


Keywords: Land rent urban space urban economics history of economic thought political economy