Land Use and Society, Revised Edition
Geography, Law, and Public Policy
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.
Contents
Introduction: Geography, Law, and Landscape: Reflections on a
Cross-Country Flight
Part I. Preliminaries:
Land, Geography, and Law
Chapter 1. The Meanings and Uses of Land
Chapter 2. The Interaction of Geography and Law
Part II. From Feudalism
to Federalism: The Social Organization of Land Use
Chapter 3. Historic Roots of Modern Land Use Institutions
Chapter 4. City Growth and Reform in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 5. Building a Metropolitan Nation
Chapter 6. The Polarized Metropolis
Part III. Discordant
Voices: Property Ownership, Local Government, and the Courts
Chapter 7. Property Rights: The Owner as Planner
Chapter 8. The Tapestry of Local Governments
Chapter 9. Local Zoning and Growth Management
Chapter 10. Land Use and the Courts
Part IV. Beyond Localism:
The Search for Broader Land Use Policies
Chapter 11. Land Programs: Regional, State, Federal
Chapter 12. Congress and the Metropolitan Environment
Conclusion: Status and
Prospects
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Some Common Acronynms
List of Cases
Index
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