Topic
urban development
224 published works
Land Use Prof Blog
Alavi on Kelo Six Years Later
Boston College Third World Law Journal Notes Editor Asher Alavi has written KELO SIX YEARS LATER: STATE RESPONSES, RAMIFICATIONS, AND SOLUTIONS FOR THE FUTURE. Here's the abstract:In 2005, the U.S.…
PropertyProf Blog
Urban Renewal Lives: London Edition
By propertyprof
I am an Olympic maniac. I love everything about the Games, both winter and summer versions (this is, surely, the most extraordinary thing a human body has ever done). …
Land Use Prof Blog
2020 View of Urban Infrastructure: The Urban Lawyer’s Juergensmeyer Festschrift
This exciting issue of The Urban Lawyer came in the mail recently, and I didn't get a chance to blog it when it came in, but it's chock full of…
Land Use Prof Blog
Salkin on the Impact of Technology and Innovation on Urban Development
Patricia Salkin (Albany) has posted From Bricks and Mortar to Mega-Bytes and Mega-Pixels: The Changing Landscape of the Impact of Technology and Innovation on Urban Development, published in The Urban…
PropertyProf Blog
Pruitt-Igoe
By propertyprof
There's a new documentary out about the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. For the uninitiated, Pruitt-Igoe remains the archetype of failed project-based housing. By all accounts, it was a…
NC Legal Landscapes
Land Use, Jules Verne and Marty McFly
By Tom Terrell
In the final scene of the movie Back to the Future III, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) stands on the train tracks as Doc Brown and his wife Clara…
PropertyProf Blog
Salkin on the Impact of Technology on Urban Development
By propertyprof
Patricia Salking (Albany) has posted From Bricks and Mortar to Mega-Bytes and Mega-Pixels: The Changing Landscape of the Impact of Technology and Innovation on Urban Development (The Urban Lawyer) on…
Land Use Prof Blog
Another Form-Based Code is…
...is now on the books. This time in Paso Robles:Form-based codes in Paso Robles – it's a first-of-a-kind adopted planning approach incorporated into a master document for the city hailed…
Land Use Prof Blog
Glaeser, Ponzetto and Tobio on Skills and Metropolitan Growth
Edward Glaeser (Harvard-Economics), Giacomo Ponzetto (Pompeu Fabra) and Kristina Tobio (Harvard-Kennedy) have posted Cities, Skills, and Regional Change. Here's the abstract:One approach to urban areas emphasizes the existence of certain…
Land Use Prof Blog
Are Urban Walmarts a Good Thing?
That's the question that is generating increasing discussion these days.What's happening is that Walmart has recognized the demand for huge suburban stores is waning in a major way. That leaves…