Public Nature of Private Property

What exactly is private property? Or to ask the question another way what rights to intrude does the public have in what is generally accepted as private property? The answer perhaps surprisingly to some is that the public has not only a significant interest in regulating the use of private property but also in defining it and establishing its contour and texture. In The Public Nature of Private Property therefore scholars from the United States and the United Kingdom challenge traditional conceptions of private property while presenting a range of views on both the meaning of private property and on the ability some might say the requirement of the state to regulate it.