Michael Ball & Vincenzo Bentivegna 
Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning [PDF ebook] 
A European Perspective

Originally published in 1985, Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning looks at the crucial social relationships associated with land ownership, and how these have played a crucial role in the economic development of many societies. The understanding of these relationships within modern capitalist societies has proved difficult. Land ownership relations emerge as requiring specific historical analysis for specific periods and societies and as being integral aspects of the capitalist mode of production as a whole — not merely mechanisms which redistribute some independently-determined surplus.