A
dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy
at the University of Cambridge
.
Contents
SUMMARY ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE
PART
I: AN HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION OF RENT THEORY 1
RICARDIAN THEORY
OF RENT
1.1 The English Revolution 1.2
Anderson and Smith 1.3
Ricardo 1.4
The theory: differential rent 1.5
The appeal of the theory
2
THE MARXIAN CRITIQUE OF THE THEORY OF RENT
2.1 The take-off of the Victorian Age 2.2
Marx on land rent a) Differential rent
b) Absolute rent
c) Monopoly rent 2.3
Labour theory of value and fundamental assumptions 2.4
Marx and the class of landowners 2.5
The missing Books of Capital The
Trinity formula/ Rey's contribution/ Marx's method
versus Marx
3
THE NON-CATEGORY OF URBAN LAND RENT
3.1 The end of the history of land rent 82 3.2
Assumptions of rent theory and contemporary capitalism 3.3
Reworking the new
material 90
PART
II: SPATIAL ORGANIZATION OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESS 4 LOCATION
AND SPACE: USE VALUE AND VALUE
4.1
Location and space 4.2
Location and space in capitalism 4.3
Use value and the payment for location 4.4
Value and the production of space 4.5
The payment for location and accumulation 4.6
The need for planning in spatial organization
5
FIXED CAPITAL AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE PRODUCTION PROCESS
5.1 Fixed capital and the individual process of production Fixed
and circulating capital/
Rigidity of capital andthe
individual rate of profit/
Surplus profit and newtechnique/
New
techniques and fixed capital 5.2
Technical progress and accumulation New
technique in the individual process of production/
Predominantly
intensive and predominantly extensive accumulation
Rigidity of capital
and crises of accumulation
6
ACCUMULATION AND THE FORM OF PAYMENT FOR LOCATION
6.1
Fluidity of
capital and the payment for location Historical
forms of the payment for location/Forms of the payment for
location and the fluidity of capital 6.2
Forms of the payment for location and the development of
capitalism Agricultural
rent in England /Supersession of the rentform
in
agriculture 6.3
Generalization of the price form and its limits The spread of
capitalism/Leasing of fixed capital/The limits of the
form of leasing
A
note on the dialectic of the commodity form
161
PART III: THE URBAN
PROCESS: PRODUCTION OF SPACE AND SPATIAL REGULATION
7 ANATOMY OF THE
TRANSFORMATION OF LAND USE
172
7.1 Production on land and technical change
173 The
price form/The rent form 7.2
The rent form versus the price
form
183 Incompatibility
within an industry/The transient role of the rent form 7.3
The movement of the price of
location
188 Relocation
of a process of production. Locational inertia/
Intensification of land use 7.4
Production on land: a summary
198 8 THE PRICE
OF LOCATION AND SPATIAL ORGANIZATION 200
8.1 Taxation on
land
201 8.2
Intensity of land use: density and pattern of
settlement 204 Individual
optimization/Collective restrictions on the individual
pattern of settlement 8.3
The limits to market
regulation
211 Anarchic
growth of urban agglomerations/Speculation in land 8.4
The emergence of the historical conditions of
planning 217 8.5
The price of location within the urban
process
221 Regulation
of land uses/Means of spatial organization/The urban
process CONCLUSION
229 BIBLIOGRAPHY
238 APPENDIX: THE URBAN PROCESS
IN SÃO PAULO
245
1
Economic development in São
Paulo
247 2
Class structure and income
distribution
253 3
Regulation of the use of
space
259 The
room of land prices in regulation of land use/ Hierarchy
of land users/ The joint selective
effect of price
and zoning law/ Jardim Europa: an
example 4
Intensity of land
use
276 The
capitalist developer/
The owner-builder: self-helphousing 5
Zones of transition and interim
uses
283
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