Belief
Private Property
Explore in the Atlas →The shared norm that individuals (and corporations) may hold exclusive, transferable rights over things, including land. A Searlean status function backed by law and collective recognition, private property is foundational to the market and decisively structures the built environment — the lot, the boundary, the title, the fence and the regime of ownership that governs who may build what, where.
Exchange Ground Power
Details
- Register
- Instituted
Classifications
- Holder
- Communal intergenerational
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Hegemonic
- Degree of codification
- Highly codified
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Referenced by
- The Modern Moral Order legitimates
Sources
- n.d..
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Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Private Property." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/belief/private-property/. Accessed July 17, 2026.