ABOUT THE BOOK

Property, Patrimony, and Territory covers land use planning at various levels of government, by different agencies involved, and for various configurations of land and different territorial and property domains. The author argues that the geophysical attributes of land, though important, are often less critical factors to consider in effective land use planning than the social, economic, and political institutions that bear on land use decisions.

Due to the paucity of homegrown planning literature in the Philippines and the need to push certain planning concepts and approaches across the table of public policy discourse, Serote takes a critical and polemical stance on many of the issues he raises in the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Prof. Ernesto M. Serote is a highly respected land use planner who has dedicated himself to the study and teaching of planning. In 2009, he was cited as the Most Outstanding Environmental Planner by the Professional Regulation Commission. In 2015, he was recognized by the UP School of Urban and Regional Planning (SURP) as Alumnus of the Decade-1980s, and as SURP’s Champion of Local Planning in 2022. Prof. Serote was a recipient of the 2023 Manuel Luis Quezon Gawad Parangal–Natatanging QCitizen for his contribution in the field of urban planning in the Philippines.