I. Key issues -- Setting the scene -- The cultural context -- Cities, growth, and the climate crisis -- The scourge of inequality -- People on the move -- Utopia or dystopia? Changing visions of urban development -- II. How we value urban land and housing -- To have and to hold -- The global move to market -- From feudal to market in the UK : a property-owning democracy? -- State land and housing management in China, Cuba, Ethiopia, and Vietnam -- From state to market in Mongolia, Albania and Cambodia -- From customary to market : Lesotho and Vanuatu, with lessons from part two -- III. What needs to be done -- Growth and sustainability -- Managing urban land markets : from problems to progress in land management -- Promoting tenure security and diversity -- Spatial planning and land use for adequate housing -- Homes not housing -- Making it happen.