This paper aims to define and classify ownership constraints to urban redevelopment. lt. draws on the initial twelve months work at the University of Aberdeen on a two and a half year study of land ownership constraints to urban redevelopment, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. On the basis of existing literature, the paper will first present an empirical typology of owner behaviour in urban redevelopment. It will then concentrate on five theoretical approaches to the development process which will be applied to test the robustness of the typology. These approaches will be grounded in neo-classical, event- sequence, agency, structure and structure-agency models of the development process. Each approach will be investigated in turn both to highlight the role it accords to the landowner in development and to identify how far it acknowledges the importance of ownership constraints in the development process.

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