The statutory institutional framework provides a particular challenge to customary tenure institutions. The majority of people in rural areas continue to rely on customary tenure arrangements for land delivery. These institutions maintain their traditional power and social responsibility to allocate the rights to use the land, resolve conflicts and carry out overall management of customary land. This study assesses governance issues within customary land delivery and presents a framework for assessing customary tenure institutions for rural land governance. The assessment is based on four governance dimensions. We conclude that while indicators of other qualities are important, measures of efficiency and effectiveness in land delivery processes, equity in distribution and allocation of land resources, accountability of stewardship, and participation of community members in land management activities and decision-making, transparency and access to information are essential to any complete assessment of good governance in customary land delivery processes.
This book focuses on the changes in the customary land tenure among the Orang Asli particularly the Semai community in the state of Pahang. The book suggests that despite the locality of the villages, the Semai customary land tenure has gradually changed due to the laws and policies introduced by the government. The book also recommends that to enable the Semai to improve the tenure system and to develop the customary lands, the Aboriginal Peoples Act 1954 (Revised 1974)should be reviewed especially provisions relating to the security of Orang Asli customary land tenure.
Image 8 of 13 from gallery of Treehouse / genarchitects. a free-standing architecture prototype. Image Courtesy of genarchitects
Colin H. Allan. Customary Land Tenure in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Honiara: Western Pacific High Commission, 1957. vi + 329p. + two-colour...
This book is a researched study of land issues in American Samoa that analyzes the impact of U.S. colonialism and empire building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Carefully tracing changes in land laws up to the present, this volume also draws on a careful examination of legal traditions, administrative decisions, court cases and rising tensions…
Designed in collaboration with the Irish artist Brian Maguire, this pavilion – the studio’s first public building – was...
Tirzah Garwood was an exceptional artist but had the disadvantage of plying her trade at a time when female artists struggled for recognition. Having married Eric Ravilious in 1930 she followed the…
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Image 4 of 53 from gallery of Kokoon / Aalto University Wood Program. Photograph by LéaPfister
Chalet in Vissoie, Switzerland.
It is argued that land is perhaps the most essential resource and an important pillar of national development. In Uganda, the management of land is regulated by the 1995 constitution and the Land Act of 1998, which recognise four tenure systems, namely; Customary, Mailo, Freehold and Leasehold tenure systems, each of which possess unique features and associated ownership rights. This study analysed important dimensions largely of a locational and regional nature, on tenure system and the value of agricultural land. The general objective was to investigate the determinants of the value of agricultural land in Uganda. The study hypothesized that institutional factors such as land titles were important determinants of agricultural land prices in Uganda; that there was a significant premium for agricultural land with title/certificate relative to that without, and that the premium for agricultural land with a freehold title was significantly higher than that for other titles/certificates. Data was obtained from the third round of the Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) conducted by Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) during the 2004/2005 crop year.
This article is part of the [Sí], a personal project curated by Marta López García where she wills to shed light on a twice silenced reality. The goal remains to recover and spread pieces of architecture displaced to the periphery; although this time focused on the work of female architects. Este artículo es parte de […]
Bernd and Hilla Becker source: http://caruso.arch.ethz.ch/
静岡を代表する画家の美術館、秋野不矩美術館の設計をした藤森照信さんは茶室建築の設計でも有名である。 タンポポハウスや、ねむの木学園美術館など、自然素材を使い、大胆でユニークなフォルムの建築も手掛けていて、世界からも注目される建築家。 友人が遊びに来たので連れ立って、建築を見に行った。 美術館の下のほうに駐車して、坂道を歩いて登っていくと見えてくるツリーハウスのような、丸くて表面がうろこのようになっている小屋が、藤森さんがつくった茶室、望矩楼。 開くようになっている窓が見える。 全体を鱗のような外皮に覆われている、これは銅板を手でくちゃくちゃにしたものらしい。 梯子で登るようだ。 三本足で立って…
Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.
Detail, narrative & memory
Imagen 8 de 25 de la galería de Testeo Pabellón de Helio: ¿cuáles son las posibilidades de la arquitectura inflable?. © Bruno Lança
Buildings in a camp in Nagykàllo, Hungary // Deszö Erkler, Imre Makovecz architect , 1988
In a parallel with Ross Wolfe, (yet purely coincidential) we publish here an early industrial work of architect Hans Poelzig, one of the finest examples of German Architectural Expressionism. As an architect and theoretician, Poelzig was particularly interested in developing a language...
Mquette by Patrick Bouchain.
The Naga tribes inhabit the hills in the northwestern corner of Myanmar and northeast India. They had long been isolated from outside culture, dwelling in independent village republics. This protected them from the land grabs that have been so prevalent in the rest of Myanmar. For centuries, tribes could sustain themselves by following their own customary tenure system, deciding who can use and manage different resources. Their traditional rules have guided them in the effective management of the properties that belong to separate or multiple households, clans, villages and whole tribes. However, their rights and culture have been recently undermined by amendments to the Myanmar’s Law on Vacant, Fallow and Virgin (VFV) Land. The essence of the dispute lies in the issue of shifting arable lands, called jhum or dengyo.
