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By Paul Boudreaux

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 11:17:06

Beyond Katrina

Posted on August 26, 2010
I am reading Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, by Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, recently published by the University of Georgia Press. (Professor Trethewey is on the creative writing faculty at Emory University...

Just a quick note: this recent

Posted on August 26, 2010
Just a quick note: this recent Vanity Fair article discussing the complexity of the federal government is a great read--one that further demonstrates some of the potential problems of the growing "federalization" of land use law (ex: the daily 350...

Samuelson on The Homeownership Fetish and the American Dream

Posted on August 26, 2010
Robert J. Samuelson (Newsweek/Washington Post economics columnist) has an article called Remodeling the American Dream (Newsweek) or alternatively How a Homeownership Fetish Hurt the American Dream (WaPo). Samuelson writes about some of the topics we have been talking about here,...

Remember That Epic "Traffic Jam"...

Posted on August 26, 2010
...that I blogged about recently here at Land Use Prof? Well, apparently what was being touted as a month long monster jam has now...well...simply...vanished? As one classic movie aptly noted, this is getting "curiouser and curiouser" every day... --Chad Emerson,...

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Victory for GGU's EJ Clinic

Posted on August 26, 2010
From Helen Kang at Golden Gate University's Environmental Law & Justice Clinic: The Environmental Law and Justice Clinic scored another victory for communities disproportionately impacted by pollution. The clinic's participation before the California Public Utilities Commission significantly contributed to the...

The Mother of All...Traffic Jams?

Posted on August 25, 2010
I kind of hate it when writers blithely attach "The Mother of..." label to the front of something that seems, while significant, hardly unprecedented. The Mother of This...The Mother of That...The Mother of All [Insert]. These days, way too many...

Fanizzo on Property Management Under the Antiquities Act

Posted on August 25, 2010
Kelly Y. Fanizzo (Temple) has posted Politics, Persuasion, and Enforcement: Property Management Under the Antiquities Act, from the 13th Annual US/ICOMOS International Symposium, Economic Benefits, Social Opportunities, and Challenges of Supporting Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Development, May 20-22, 2010 and...

Rybczynski in Slate on Ordinary Places

Posted on August 24, 2010
Witold Rybczynski, Slate's architecture critic, UPenn prof, and author of many fascinating books, has an article--well, they call it a "slideshow"--called Ordinary Places: Rediscovering the parking lot, the big-box store, the farmer's market, the gas station...

Falling Arches?

Posted on August 24, 2010
Say it isn't so!: As civic leaders reveled in last week's unveiling of grand plans to remake the Gateway Arch grounds, there was an ominous element not discussed. Almost 45 years into its reign atop the St. Louis skyline, the...

Blogger Says Obama's Million Dollar Fundraiser Costs City of L.A. $3 Million

Posted on August 24, 2010
Read it here, on Planetizen. Whatever your political persuasion or position on campaign finance reform, it sort of speaks for itself... Jamie Baker Roskie

YIMBYs

Posted on August 24, 2010
In the land use community the NIMBY concept--"not in my back yard"--is a nearly omnipresent factor in development issues, comprehensive planning, regionalism, and other law and policy issues. I'd even say that NIMBY might be the land-use concept that has...

2011 ALPS Meeting

Posted on August 24, 2010
I wasn't able to make it to last year's first Association of Law, Property, and Society meeting but heard fantastic things about it. That's why I was excited to see that details for the 2011 meeting have been announced. Learn...

"Formula" Businesses...

Posted on August 22, 2010
A recent USA Today article focused on ordinances that seek to ban chain or "formula" businesses from locating in a jurisdiction: Striving to protect that charm, town officials crafted an ordinance that bans "formula restaurants" from opening within the city...

Recent Land Planning & Development Class Activity...

Posted on August 22, 2010
As part of the ongoing land development simulation that I'm conducting for this year's Land Planning & Development course, I recently had each of the small groups identify the owner of the "Semester Parcel" and describe their method and source...

Prof. Keith Hirokawa has published

Posted on August 20, 2010
Prof. Keith Hirokawa has published an excellent article in Lewis & Clark Law School's Environmental Law, the nation's oldest law review dedicated to environmental issues. The article is titled "At Home with Nature: Early Reflections on Green Building Laws and...

Public Domain Land Planning Images...

Posted on August 19, 2010
I was recently going through my computer files and realized that I had taken thousands of digital images related to land planning over the last 5 years or so. These images, though, were just sitting there, unused, on my hard...

Economic Development Clinical Law Faculty Position - University of Idaho

Posted on August 19, 2010
It's the time of year for job announcements! This one is from Jerry Long: THE UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO COLLEGE OF LAW seeks to fill an entry level, tenure-track faculty position beginning in the Fall of 2011 at its Boise, Idaho...

Environmental Law Position at Georgia State Law School

Posted on August 19, 2010
Another announcement from Prof. Juergensmeyer: As many of you know, Colin Crawford has left us and is now Professor and Executive Director of the Payson Center for International Development and Knowledge Management at Tulane University Law School. We are now...

Slide Show of Georgia Theater Rebuild

Posted on August 19, 2010
Previously I blogged about the historic Georgia Theater, almost destroyed by fire a year ago. The Athens Banner-Herald now has a slide show showing reconstruction in the interior. It's a pretty interesting pictorial history of the restoration of the building,...

The Cost of Driving, The Cost of Roads...

Posted on August 18, 2010
Before I started focusing on land use issues, I never fully appreciated how much local land use planning is driven by federal and state road-building policy. I suspect this is also the case for much of the general public. At...

Abandoned Farmland Slated for Solar Project

Posted on August 18, 2010
According to a recent story on NPR's Morning Edition, California has recently declared one of the most ambitious targets for renewable energy in the world - 1/3rd of its electricity from renewable sources by 2020. (Sadly, Georgia has no currently...

Harrison "Buzz" Price Passes Away...

Posted on August 18, 2010
One of the most interesting land use projects I've recently worked on was a law review article I wrote for the Florida State law review that focused on the Reedy Creek Improvement District. The District was the unique quasi-governmental entity...

GSU Seeks Assistant Director for Metropolitan Growth Center

Posted on August 18, 2010
From Julian Juergensmeyer at Georgia State University: Georgia State University's College of Law seeks highly qualified applicants to fill the position of Assistant Director in its Center for the Comparative Study of Metropolitan Growth. The Assistant Director with work with...

Prof. Troy A. Rule, Associate Professor

Posted on August 18, 2010
Prof. Troy A. Rule, Associate Professor of Law, University of Missouri, presented recently an incredibly interesting and timely paper at the 2010 SEALS Conference in Palm Beach. (I had the pleasure of speaking on the New Scholars Panel there with...

Controversy Over Vineyard Development in Napa

Posted on August 17, 2010
Jennifer Wells has published the Note "In Vino Veritas: Grapes, Greed, and Lawsuits in the Napa Valley," 16 Hastings W.-N.W. J. Env. L. & Pol'y 515. From the Introduction: If blood will have blood, then Napa will have wine. Or...

The One Exam Per Semester Model...

Posted on August 17, 2010
A recent post over at Prawfsblog has some interesting thoughts on the common law school model of grading a student's performance in a semester-long course with only a single exam. I agree that this is really a strange and likely...

Diamond on Homeownership and Shared Equity in the Context of Poverty

Posted on August 17, 2010
Michael Diamond (Georgetown) has posted The Meaning and Nature of Property: Homeownership and Shared Equity in the Context of Poverty, St. Louis University Public Law Review, Vol. 29, pp. 85-112, 2009. The abstract: While a Blackstonian view of property envisaged...

Arnold on Sustainable Webs of Interest

Posted on August 17, 2010
Craig Anthony (Tony) Arnold (Louisville) has posted Sustainable Webs of Interest: Property in an Interconnected Environment, from PROPERTY RIGHTS AND SUSTAINABILITY: THE EVOLUTION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS TO MEET ECOLOGICAL CHALLENGES, David Grinlinton & Prudence Taylor, eds...

The Life of Soccer Stadiums Post World Cup

Posted on August 17, 2010
My first day of class is Friday, so I thought I'd sneak in one last summer-break-inspired post before getting down to business. On a flight to California last month my husband, Neal Anderson (Rolfer and architect-extraordinaire) sat next to ESPN...

The "Semester Parcel"...

Posted on August 17, 2010
As I've mentioned before, each year in Land Planning and Development, I assign each of the students into small groups where they each "develop" a real piece of land here in Montgomery. The topics they deal with over the course...

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