Download or read book Land Use and Abuse in America written by Peter M. Wolf and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land Use and Abuse in America is a call to action. It is intended to inspire everyone involved in land transformation from rural to city center -- residents, business leaders, community officials and professionals -- determined to make a difference. In the past, all across America, at every level of geography and at every scale of community, the natural land has been treated harshly and unwisely with adverse consequences. Facing the inevitability of change and growth, and aware of past mishaps, there is urgent need for more insightful planning. As detailed in this book, a vast opportunity exists to do it well going forward. America shows distinct signs of relinquishing its world hegemony in military power, diplomatic influence, and economic solidity. As these transitions occur, we must utilize precious capital and time to improve our approach to new settlement, to upgrading our existing communities and infrastructure, and to the preservation and conservation of natural and built resources. There are promising signs. A new generation is becoming aware that the old systems of land use and abuse will not provide a sustainably desirable future. A shift in emphasis is detectable as responsible residents, business leaders and elected officials abandon long held assumptions that resource will never give out, that there is always another unspoiled place to settle, that everything will last forever. In this first decade of the twenty-first century, a half century after the environmental consciousness-raising years of the 1960s, a more aware generation is ascending to community, corporate and government leadership. Professionals in the land use arena have the opportunity to inform and to assist these more enlightened stakeholders. Well trained and well intentioned experts are in a better position than ever before to revise out-dated practices. Cities, towns, suburbs, and exurban development currently consumes only 7% of the U.S. land area. As the population expands and economies evolve, much more land will be transformed, and built-up areas will be reconfigured. Everyone working in the domain of land use transformation is at the center of a long-run epic. Whatever happens in the physical world affects land use, and land use affects everything that happens in the natural world, often over a very long time span. It is my view that enlightened land use planning and building induces a positive measurable ripple effect far beyond the appearance of the physical world. As the resources available to the nation become recognized as finite, there is no better way than through wise, bold, creative and fresh land use initiatives to enhance the social, economic, environmental and humanistic encounters that collectively compose our daily experience. Each community is like a distinct, complex corporation. It has vast assets -- all of the real property in town, and all of the human energy and good-will of its residents. Ideally, each resident comes to understand that he or she is a stakeholder in the quality of the overall physical place, way beyond next door and the neighborhood -- a shareholder in the total enterprise. Barriers to comprehensive and innovative land use planning have been weakened by long delayed public alarm about our degrading physical environment and our simultaneous looming shortage of capital, credit, energy, and natural resources. While these matters now roil financial markets, stir scientific inquiry, and engender political debate, they underscore the imperative for wiser use, and diminished abuse, of the land.
Download or read book Land Use Without Zoning written by Bernard H. Siegan and published by Mercatus Center at George Maso. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conversation about zoning has meandered its way through issues ranging from housing affordability to economic growth to segregation, expanding in the process from a public policy backwater to one of the most discussed policy issues of the day. In his pioneering 1972 study, Land Use Without Zoning, Bernard Siegan first set out what has today emerged as a common-sense perspective: Zoning not only fails to achieve its stated ends of ordering urban growth and separating incompatible uses, but also drives housing costs up and competition down. In no uncertain terms, Siegan concludes, "Zoning has been a failure and should be eliminated!" Drawing on the unique example of Houston--America's fourth largest city, and its lone dissenter on zoning--Siegan demonstrates how land use will naturally regulate itself in a nonzoned environment. For the most part, Siegan says, markets in Houston manage growth and separate incompatible uses not from the top down, like most zoning regimes, but from the bottom up. This approach yields a result that sets Houston apart from zoned cities: its greater availability of multifamily housing. Indeed, it would seem that the main contribution of zoning is to limit housing production while adding an element of permit chaos to the process. Land Use Without Zoning reports in detail the effects of current exclusionary zoning practices and outlines the benefits that would accrue to cities that forgo municipally imposed zoning laws. Yet the book's program isn't merely destructive: beyond a critique of zoning, Siegan sets out a bold new vision for how land-use regulation might work in the United States. Released nearly a half century after the book's initial publication, this new edition recontextualizes Siegan's work for our current housing affordability challenges. It includes a new preface by law professor David Schleicher, which explains the book's role as a foundational text in the law and economics of urban land use and describes how it has informed more recent scholarship. Additionally, it includes a new afterword by urban planner Nolan Gray, which includes new data on Houston's evolution and land use relative to its peer cities.
Download or read book Eminent Domain Use and Abuse written by Dwight H. Merriam and published by American Bar Association. This book was released on 2006 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive analysis of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. City of New London. It addresses the controversial and important question of when eminent domain may constitutionally be used to take property for projects that are not publicly owned and operated facilities, such as schools and town halls. The volume captures and conveys the context within which this debate is taking place as well as offers guidance concerning the Kelo decision itself and how it may be used.
Download or read book Corruption in Land Use and Building Regulation An integrated report of conclusions written by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corruption in Land Use and Building Regulation written by National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Use Controls written by Robert C. Ellickson and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land Use Controls: Cases and Materials emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach that weaves historical, social, and economic causes and effects of legal doctrine. The casebook also brings out the functional relationships between formally unrelated routes of law—statutes, ordinances, constitutional doctrines, and common law—by focusing on their practical deployment, developers, neighbors, planners, politicians, and their empirical effects on outcomes like neighborhood quality, housing supply, racial segregation, and tax burdens. A thematic framework illuminates the connections among multiple topics under land law and gives attention to the factual and political context of the cases and aftermath of decisions. Dynamic pedagogy features original introductory text, cases, notes, excerpts from law review articles, and visual aids (maps, charts, graphs) throughout. New to the Fifth Edition: A focus on affordability and the new conflicts over urban zoning A fully updated treatment of local administrative law Recent constitutional rulings, including up-to-date Supreme Court decisions on exactions and regulatory takings Thoroughly updated notes, with recent cases, law review literature, and empirical studies Professors and students will benefit from: Distinguished authorship by respected scholars and professors with a range of expertise An interdisciplinary approach combining historical, social, political, and economic perspectives and offering dynamic opportunities for analysis along with broad legal coverage Concise but comprehensive treatment of the legal issues in private and public regulation of land development, including environmental justice, building codes and subdivision regulations, and the federal role in urban development A thematic framework illuminating connections among multiple discrete topics under land law and the factual and political context of cases and aftermath of decisions Excellent coverage and dynamic pedagogy
Download or read book National Land Use Planning written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Land Use Planning written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Use Regulation written by Daniel P. Selmi and published by Aspen Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Land Use Regulation: Cases and Materials, Fifth Edition is a dynamic, scholarly, yet practical teaching approach that focuses on the role of the lawyer in land use regulatory matters and the factors that influence land development decisions. Offering more comprehensive changes than in any edition since the book was first published, the Fifth Edition offers a new chapter addressing emerging issues in the field, including regulation of medical marijuana and fracking, responses to problems posed by vulnerable populations such as the homeless, continuing developments in “smart growth,” and changes in redevelopment law. It also features a thorough reorganization of takings materials, combining all of them in one chapter and addressing emerging issues.
Download or read book Land Use and Spatial Planning written by Graciela Metternicht and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconciles competing and sometimes contradictory forms of land use, while also promoting sustainable land use options. It highlights land use planning, spatial planning, territorial (or regional) planning, and ecosystem-based or environmental land use planning as tools that strengthen land governance. Further, it demonstrates how to use these types of land-use planning to improve economic opportunities based on sustainable management of land resources, and to develop land use options that strike a balance between conservation and development objectives. Competition for land is increasing as demand for multiple land uses and ecosystem services rises. Food security issues, renewable energy and emerging carbon markets are creating pressures for the conversion of agricultural land to other uses such as reforestation and biofuels. At the same time, there is a growing demand for land in connection with urbanization and recreation, mining, food production, and biodiversity conservation. Managing the increasing competition between these services, and balancing different stakeholders’ interests, requires efficient allocation of land resources.
Download or read book The Use and Abuse of Power written by Annette Y. Lee-Chai and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of works from prominent researchers, promoting both a panoramic and multilevel understanding of this complex construct, with focus on power as a cause of social ills and remedies to prevent corruption and abuse.
Download or read book Tax Delinquency and Rural Land use Adjustment written by United States. National Resources Planning Board. Land Committee and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Zoned in the USA written by Sonia A. Hirt and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are American cities, suburbs, and towns so distinct? Compared to European cities, those in the United States are characterized by lower densities and greater distances; neat, geometric layouts; an abundance of green space; a greater level of social segregation reflected in space; and—perhaps most noticeably—a greater share of individual, single-family detached housing. In Zoned in the USA, Sonia A. Hirt argues that zoning laws are among the important but understudied reasons for the cross-continental differences.Hirt shows that rather than being imported from Europe, U.S. municipal zoning law was in fact an institution that quickly developed its own, distinctly American profile. A distinct spatial culture of individualism—founded on an ideal of separate, single-family residences apart from the dirt and turmoil of industrial and agricultural production—has driven much of municipal regulation, defined land-use, and, ultimately, shaped American life. Hirt explores municipal zoning from a comparative and international perspective, drawing on archival resources and contemporary land-use laws from England, Germany, France, Australia, Russia, Canada, and Japan to challenge assumptions about American cities and the laws that guide them.
Download or read book California Land Use Regulations written by James Longtin and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Local Governments and Their Intergovernmental Networks in Federalizing Spain written by Robert Agranoff and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of local intergovernmental networks in increasingly federal Spain.
Download or read book The Use and Abuse of Nature written by Madhav Gadgil and published by Oxford India Collection (Paper. This book was released on 2004 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an omnibus edition of two books that have radically altered our understanding of Indian history. This Fissured Land presents an interpretive ecological history of the sub-continent. Ecology and Equity is a spirited intervention into the environment-development debate.
Download or read book Developments in Soil Classification Land Use Planning and Policy Implications written by Shabbir A. Shahid and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the world’s population continues to expand, maintaining and indeed increasing agricultural productivity is more important than ever, though it is also more difficult than ever in the face of changing weather patterns that in some cases are leading to aridity and desertification. The absence of scientific soil inventories, especially in arid areas, leads to mistaken decisions about soil use that, in the end, reduce a region’s capacity to feed its population, or to guarantee a clean water supply. Greater efficiency in soil use is possible when these resources are properly classified using international standards. Focusing on arid regions, this volume details soil classification from many countries. It is only once this information is properly assimilated by policymakers it becomes a foundation for informed decisions in land use planning for rational and sustainable uses.
