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9781559636858

Land Use And Society: Geography, Law, and Public Policy

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    9781559636858

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  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-06-18
  • Publisher: Island Pr

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Summary

Land Use and Society is a unique and compelling exploration of interactions among law, geography, history, and culture and their joint influence on the evolution of land use and urban form in the United States. Originally published in 1996, this completely revised, expanded, and updated edition retains the strengths of the earlier version while introducing a host of new topics and insights on the twenty-first century metropolis. This new edition of Land Use and Society devotes greater attention to urban land use and related social issues with two new chapters tracing American city and metropolitan change over the twentieth century. More emphasis is given to social justice and the environmental movement and their respective roles in shaping land use and policy in recent decades. This edition of Land Use and Society by Rutherford H. Platt is updated to reflect the 2000 Census, the most recent Supreme Court decisions, and various topics of current interest such as affordable housing, protecting urban water supplies, urban biodiversity, and "ecological cities." It also includes an updated conclusion that summarizes some positive and negative outcomes of urban land policies to date.

Author Biography

Rutherford H. Platt is professor of geography and planning law in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Geography, Law, and Landscape: Reflections on a Cross-Country Flight xi
PART I Preliminaries: Land, Geography, and Law
1(62)
The Meanings and Uses of Land
3(25)
The Interaction of Geography and Law
28(35)
PART II From Feudalism to Federalism: The Social Organization of Land Use
63(144)
Historic Roots of Modern Land Use Institutions
65(30)
City Growth and Reform in the Nineteenth Century
95(55)
Building a Metropolitan Nation: 1900--1945
150(27)
The Polarized Metropolis: 1945--2000
177(30)
PART III Discordant Voices: Property Ownership, Local Government, and the Courts
207(126)
Property Rights: The Owner as Planner
209(27)
The Tapestry of Local Governments
236(24)
Local Zoning and Growth Management
260(31)
Land Use and the Courts
291(42)
PART IV Beyond Localism: The Search for Broader Land Use Policies
333(86)
Land Programs: Regional, State, Federal
335(33)
Congress and the Metropolitan Environment
368(51)
Conclusion Status and Prospects 419(14)
Acknowledgments 433(2)
About the Author 435(2)
Some Common Acronyms 437(2)
List of Cases 439(4)
Index 443

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