Land use and society
Subtitle: geography, law, and public policy
By: Rutherford H. Platt.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 455
Subjects: Land use -- Law and legislation -- United States; Land use -- United States; Physical geography -- United States
Description: "Land Use and society is a exploration of interactions among law, geography, history, and culture and of 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 devotes greater attention to urban land use and related social issues with two new chapters that trace 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 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.""--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The meanings and uses of land; title: The interaction of geography and law; title: Historic roots of modern land use institutions; title: City growth and reform in the nineteenth century; title: Building a metropolitan nation: 1900-1945; title: The polarized metropolis: 1945-2000.; title: Property rights: the owner as planner; title: The tapestry of local governments; title: Local zoning and growth management; title: Land use and the courts; title: Land programs: regional, state, and federal; title: Congress and the metropolitan environment.