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Zoned in the USA : the origins and implications of American land-use regulation / Sonia A. Hirt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirt, Sonia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use--United States--Planning--History.
- Land use.
- Land use--Law and legislation--United States--History.
- City planning--United States--History.
- City planning.
- Zoning law.
- History.
- Zoning.
- City planning and redevelopment law.
- Land use--Law and legislation.
- Planning.
- United States.
- City planning and redevelopment law--United States--History.
- Zoning--United States--History.
- Zoning law--United States--History.
- Land use--Planning.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, [2014]
- Summary:
- In Zoned in the USA, Sonia A. 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. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- An American model of land-use control
- America's housing trademark
- How the system works
- How others do it
- Roots
- American beginnings in comparative perspective
- The formative years of American zoning
- The promises and paradoxes of residential zoning.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801453052
- 0801453054
- 9780801479878
- 0801479878
- OCLC:
- 879527609
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