Land wars : the politics of property and community / John G. Francis, Leslie Pickering Francis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Francis, John G., 1943- author.

Francis, Leslie, 1946- author.

Series:

Explorations in public policy.

Explorations in public policy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Land use--Decision making.

Land use.

Land use--Government policy.

Real estate development--Decision making.

Real estate development.

Right of property.

Community power.

Land use--United States--Decision making.

Land use--Government policy--United States.

Real estate development--United States--Decision making.

Right of property--United States.

Community power--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Raising the question of what rights “owners”—community, as well as individual—in fact “have,” the authors offer a sophisticated, much-needed analysis of land-use policy.

Contents:

Series page ; Title page ; Copyright page ; Dedication ; Contents ; Chapter 1- Property and Community: Localist Paradigms ; Localist Paradigms of Land Use: Property Rights and Community; Conflicting Claims to Land: The Grand Staircase of the Escalante; Use in Movement: RiversUpstream and Downstream; A Note About Methodology; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2- Misreading the Paradigm of Private Property; Three Stories of Ownership; Private Property Rights: The Absolutist Paradigm; Constitutionalizing Property; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 3- Legal Accommodation of Private and Public Values

Two Examples of AccessTakings Jurisprudence in the United States: Striving to Maintain a Balance; The British Example: Accommodating Private and Public Values; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4- Concepts of Community and Land Use; The Suburb as Rural Community: Bedford, New York; Local Regulation of Land Use; Community and Land Use:Enduring Appeal and Changing Understandings; Proximity and Land Use; An Identified Community at Perpetual Risk: The Scottish Crofters; Between Countryside and City: The Critique of Suburbia as a Form of Community

Beyond Farming:Constraining Metropolitan Expansion or Preserving Rural Retreats in Debating the GreenbeltsRethinking Community and Metropolitan Life: Implications for Land Use; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 5- Beyond Locality in Land Use Decisions; The Model of Exit, Voice, and Loyalty; Global Change and Local Identity; Magnetic Localities, Extended Communities; Assessing Movement and Attachment in Local Land Use Decisionmaking; Conclusion: Giving Voice to the Extended Community; Notes; Chapter 6- Guardianship of Global and Systemic Problems

The Everglades and Global Warming:A Paradigmatic Systemic ProblemConsequentialism and Interconnected Obligations; Nonconsequentialism; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 7- Land Use in an Interconnected World; References; Table of Cases; Index; About the Book

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62637-377-9

OCLC:

1334343870