Topic
urban development
224 published works
Land Use Prof Blog
“The Global Evolution of a New South City”
The University of Georgia press has published Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City:The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city…
Land Use Prof Blog
Walmart Goes Urban (Kind Of)…
Long derided as the antithesis of sustainable design, Walmart stores are typically surrounded in a sea of asphalt parking with, at most, some decorated facades designed to give off the…
Land Use Prof Blog
Is Vegas a Sodom and Gomorrah Theme Park?
Contiuning in our Las Vegas theme, I ran across an article in the October issue of Smithsonian magazine by someone who dislikes Vegas even more than I. Journalist J.R. Moehringer…
Land Use Prof Blog
Lefcoe on the Uses and Abuses of Tax Increment Financing
George Lefcoe (Southern California) has posted Competing for the Next Hundred Million Americans: The Uses and Abuses of Tax Increment Financing. The abstract:Demographers predict that the US population will grow…
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The Sooty Spectre
By propertyprof
Joel Kotkin, writing in Foregn Policy, examines the future of urban development. Kotkin argues that planners should do more to resist the growing trend of megacities. On the global scale,…
Land Use Prof Blog
Mixon on Land Use Vignettes in (Unzoned?) Houston
I blogged recently on the publication of the Notre Dame Symposium on Urban Development. John Mixon (U. of Houston) has just posted to SSRN his contribution, Four Land Use Vignettes…
Land Use Prof Blog
Kotkin: Why Housing Will Come Back
On his New Geography blog for Forbes, Joel Kotkin has an essay on why he thinks there will be a resurgence in the housing market starting later this decade: Why…
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Notre Dame Symposium on Urban Development
The Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, & Public Policy has published a Symposium on Urban Development in the 21st Century: NotreDame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy, Volume 24,…
Land Use Prof Blog
A Marxist’s View of Manhattan (and Other Urban Settings)…
Okay, so maybe I was making a weak attempt at introducing a Woody Allen-like title to Land Use Prof. But, is does accurately reflect this interesting article from FastCompany.com:"New York?…
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Hirokawa and Salkin on Urban University Expansion, Sustainable Development, and Columbia
Many of you might be familiar with the controversy over Columbia University's plans for expansion; the plans, however, raise numerous land use issues besides eminent domain. Keith Hirokawa (Albany) and…