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Land Use Prof Blog

By Paul Boudreaux

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

The land use (and other) costs of our non-urban university system ?

Posted on May 06, 2009
Commentaries are filled these days with stories about the crunch on college students, whose savings (or parents? savings) have diminished, while college fees continue to rise, especially at state schools, whose own parent governments typically are desperate to raise more...

Walmart wars (no hyphen any more), an update ?

Posted on May 04, 2009
It?s become a cliché that the most notable American business that is doing well in the recession is the biggest one of all, which also happens to be the haven of the penny-pinched American: Walmart (and here?s a note to...

The fall (literally?) of certain American city neighborhoods ?

Posted on April 29, 2009
Cities rise and fall. Famous places such as ancient Jericho, Chang-an, and even Rome declined and nearly disappeared, and their abandoned buildings were torn down, as the cities? economic or political reasons for being dissolved. There has been a lot...

Pedestrian malls, cities, and shoppers ?

Posted on April 21, 2009
Whither the pedestrian mall? I considered the paradox of the foot-only shopping thoroughfare as I visited the fairy unsuccessful example of Franklin Street, once upon a time the prime shopping street (here?s an old photo), of downtown Tampa, Florida. Why...

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Density debates in Oakland, the Brooklyn of the West ?

Posted on April 17, 2009
Few places in the nation crystallize modern America as well as Oakland, California. One of the most diverse cities in the country ? diverse both in range of wealth as well as in race ? Oakland stretches from fantastic million-dollar...

Public transportation, in the heart of the Sunbelt ?

Posted on April 16, 2009
I went to Ft. Worth, Texas, this week and decided, as I often do on travel, to check out the public transportation, both for the adventure of it and to assess the nation?s commitment, or lack thereof, to alternatives to...

Bacchus versus Stoic, on the beach in Florida ?

Posted on April 13, 2009
Among the contradictions of the American psyche that worm their way into land use law is the combination of, on one hand, an acceptance of even wild-eyed ?individual expression? with, on the other, a puritan regulation of alcohol use. This...

Jobs, like people, sprawled over the past decade ?

Posted on April 09, 2009
Okay, we?re in the middle of a recession in which nothing is being built, exurbs are hemorrhaging foreclosures, and we?re still shook up from last year?s spike in gasoline prices. Does this truly signal the ?end of sprawl,? as so...

Will this be a landmark? How might I know?

Posted on April 07, 2009
Imagine that you?re on the landmark commission of a big city with a lot of architectural history ? say, Chicago. What would you prefer as criteria for designating landmarks or landmark districts? You?d like a lot of flexibility, of course,...

Preserving a pawn shop, in the heart of affluent America ?

Posted on April 02, 2009
When is a LULU (locally unwanted land use) no longer a LULU? Perhaps when it becomes a comfortable part of the community. Perhaps when exclusionary land use laws squeeze out an established business. And perhaps when economic times call for...

Helping the homeless with housing first ..

Posted on April 01, 2009
Which should come first in responding to homeless persons with alcohol or drug addictions: cleaning them up or getting them into permanent housing? Much of traditional thinking has been that addressing the personal problems needs to come first. But a...

Summertime is coming ? and the book is about Euclid ?

Posted on March 30, 2009
This is the time of year to start making one?s summer reading list. At the top of my list is a new book by Professor Michael Allan Wolf, ?The Zoning of America: Euclid v. Ambler.? In the epochal Euclid case...

Wilderness or renewable energy? ?

Posted on March 25, 2009
The federal Wilderness Act, enacted back in the optimistic year of 1964, defines such areas as federal land ?where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain.?...

Demolishing America ?

Posted on March 24, 2009
Whither goes the law of construction in a country where little is being built? Perhaps it moves to the law of demolition. Here are two interesting stories about the very literal disappearance of old industrial America: the disassembly of the...

The future of urban land use ? courtesy of a more diverse America? ?

Posted on March 19, 2009
How will the increasing ethnic diversity of America affect land use law? One way that immigration is bound to change the law is that people from other nations will bring different perceptions of what makes a pleasant community. The San...

A history of the making of the ghetto ?

Posted on March 18, 2009
What causes racial segregation and ?ghettos?? Behavioral economists point out that if most people prefer not to be a racial minority in their neighborhood, rather extreme segregation may occur by private sorting. Sociologists point to the isolation that ghettos engender,...

The rise of tent cities ?

Posted on March 12, 2009
In another depressing parallel to the 1930s, there are more stories about tent cities ?- the synthetic age?s equivalent of Hoovervilles or shantytowns ?- popping up in the news. One of the most striking stories is from Sacramento ?- the...

What do homeowners want?

Posted on March 10, 2009
What do property owners want from their local land use laws? I read this week a good student paper on zoning, in which the student cited many economic analyses that stated, with only slight generalization, that what homeowners want from...

Supply and demand, and revisiting the land use law causes of the housing bubble ?

Posted on March 05, 2009

Turn off that sprinkler! ? pretty please ?

Posted on March 04, 2009

The suburban ideal of ... the great university campus ?

Posted on March 02, 2009

The future of cities is ... well ? ahead of us ?

Posted on February 26, 2009
It?s an old joke that making predictions is difficult, especially about the future. In response to posts earlier this week, Catherine LaCroix at Case Western Reserve directs us to a website (with references to a report and book) about the...

Whither environmental land use laws in a depressed land? ?

Posted on February 24, 2009
How will the economic depression (I?m not the first to say it) affect environmental land use polices? For some large-scale issues, such as suburban sprawl and natural resource degradation, the slump will diminish the harms and make conservationist land use...

The future of our cities .. and two perspectives ?

Posted on February 20, 2009
How will land use and law change in our collapsed economy? In March's Atlantic Monthly, commentators Richard Florida and Sandra Tsing Loh offer opinions - and, provocatively, offer far different conclusions. Florida, author of "The Rise of the Creative Class,"...

If you could live where you wanted ?

Posted on February 17, 2009
This week I?ll write about the growing number of assertions that the collapse of the housing boom and the American economy spells the end of sprawl and the revival of the dense city ?- an assertion that runs counter to...

Seaside, age, and Kunstler ?

Posted on February 13, 2009
Whenever I show my students pictures of Seaside ?- the famous New Urbanist community in the Florida panhandle ?- I invariably get titters and comments from students that it looks ?creepy.? Why is this? Is it because they remember it...

Happy and sad endings for historic theatres ?

Posted on February 11, 2009
One of the biggest drawbacks to historic preservation is when the building or area doesn?t fit modern economic needs. It?s all well and good to say ?adaptive reuse,? but sometimes it?s difficult to find a successful adaptation. Some of the...

Redesigning the suburbs?

Posted on February 05, 2009
In an entry in the New York Times this week, design writer Allison Arieff wrote for the second time on the topic of ?saving the suburbs.? The first entry raised questions of what to do with new McMansion developments that...

Enlightenment isn?t so easy, when though land use choices must be made ?

Posted on February 02, 2009
It?s one thing simply to advocate for greater density and more public transportation; it?s another thing to make the tough policy choices that these land uses entail. I noticed that commentators Peter Katz and Walljasper annointed my old home county....

A scene from the quiet expansion of impact fees ?

Posted on January 29, 2009
While news reporters tell us that the public is putting environmental concerns on the back burner during our current financial recession, this lack of national attention doesn?t mean that environmental steps in land use law are not moving forward ?-....

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