Topic
urban development
224 published works
Land Use Prof Blog
Schwarz in The Atlantic on Gentrification and its Discontents
Benjamin Schwarz has written a fascinating article in The Atlantic called Gentrification and its Discontents: Manhattan never was what we think it was. The intro:MICHAELSORKIN, AN architectand critic, and Sharon Zukin, an…
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Are there “controlled experiments” in land use? Does it matter?
Land use appears to resist easy generalizations. We are often told, for example, that although land use is a formal power of the state, it is a matter of inherently…
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Texas Sprawl Goes Out With a Bang
They imploded Texas Stadium recently, which was in the suburban city of Irving in the DFW metroplex. What is Irving going to do with all of that land? Turns out…
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Keep Portland Precious?
From last week's Economist, an editorial about whether Portland, Oregon's success as a environmentally-friendly, dense, bikable community can be replicated, or whether it is unique.The locals, in fact, enjoy feeling…
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Rybczynski doubts centralized city planning
Witold Rybczynski--Slate's architecture critic, U. Penn. professor, and author of several wonderful and accessible books on design and the built environment in America--has a short but compelling article called Don't…
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Judge rules the Atlantic Yards Project to be a matter for the political will
Develop Don’t Destroy, Inc. and Prospect Heights Neighborhood Development Council (Brooklyn), Inc. v Empire State Development Corporation and Forest City Ratner Companies, LLC In these Article 78 proceedings, petitioners are…
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Joel Kotkin’s “The Decline of Los Angeles”
In "The Decline of Los Angeles," published on Newgeography.com and originally in Forbes, author Joel Kotkin explores what he describes "one of the most rapid--and largely unnecessary--municipal reversals in fortune in American…
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Anderson on being Mapped Out of Local Democracy
Michelle Wilde Anderson (Berkeley) has posted Mapped Out of Local Democracy, forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review. The abstract:In the novel Sula, Toni Morrison describes a neighborhood known locally as…
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A Bird’s Eye View…
Metropolis Magazine has a very interesting article and photo essay from a long-time observer of sprawl from the sky:“With these pictures, I am interested in exploring the intersection of art…
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Revised Landmarks Guide
In case readers missed it last year, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission has published the fourth edition of its well-known Guide to New York City Landmarks (John Wiley & Sons). …