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urban development
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Land Use Prof Blog
What – Not every city protects it history?…
Tomorrow the climactic game of the National Hockey League season will be played at Joe Louis Arena in “Hockeytown,” Detroit, Mich., where thousands of rabid fans will pack the…
Green Building Law Update
Ghost Malls in Kansas City
Regular readers of this blog know I am from Kansas. Overland Park, Kansas to be exact. I love my hometown but I am also concerned for my hometown. Last time…
PropertyProf Blog
Davidson to HUD
By propertyprof
Nestor Davidson (Colorado), an occasional guest here and an all-around awesome guy, has accepted a senior legal position at the U.S. Dep't of Housing and Urban Development. Here's Colorado's press…
Land Use Prof Blog
The future of our cities .. and two perspectives …
How will land use and law change in our collapsed economy? In March's Atlantic Monthly, commentators Richard Florida and Sandra Tsing Loh offer opinions - and, provocatively, offer far…
PropertyProf Blog
AALS Real Estate Transactions Section — Field Trip
By propertyprof
The Naval Training Center in San Diego closed in 1995. The city redeveloped this prime location on San Diego Bay as Liberty Station. The development "restores waterfront access to the…
Land Use Prof Blog
The roller coaster of preservation laws …
Should government pay special attention to the effect of land use laws on distinctive private land uses? Should government act affirmatively to try to preserve these distinctive land…
Land Use Prof Blog
Sprucing up foreclosure lanes …
While Congress is busy mortgaging the nation’s financial future to rescue Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, local governments are busy with more urgent efforts to ameliorate the social harms…
Land Use Prof Blog
Socks and the city … and groceries in the Tenderloin …
I often suggest to my students that the success of re-urbanization depends on the “white sock” test. How far does a central city dweller have to travel to…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Pittsburgh’s Immigrant Future
Thanks to Richard Herman for this from Action News in Pittsburgh:"With its shrinking local population, the Pittsburgh area's best hope for a bright future may rest on the shoulders of…
The Right Coast
World Cities Close Up Maimon Schwarzschild
Here is a fascinating website about world cities: Urban Tours by Rental Car. The authors have posted shrewd and very realistic essays about cities around the world, with lots of…