This publication is meant for administrators and decision-makers that are no expert in urban land management. It focuses on concepts and issues in urban land and on possible policy tools to address these issues. A special emphasis is placed on increasing the access of the poor to the formal land and housing markets. It explains concepts and terminologies such as, land markets in the urban economy, political aspects of land development and management, land development and poverty alleviation, land tenure, land speculation and land registration, planning tools, legislative and fiscal tools, slums, squatter settlements, illegal subdivisions, increasing supply of and effective demand for land for the poor, objectives of urban land policies.