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Land Use and Society, Revised Edition: Geography, Law, and Public Policy
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About Land Use And Society, Revised
Product Description Land Use and Society is a unique and compelling exploration of interactions among law, geography, history, and culture and their joint influence on the evolution of land use and urban form in the United States. Originally published in 1996, this completely revised, expanded, and updated edition retains the strengths of the earlier version while introducing a host of new topics and insights on the twenty-first century metropolis. This new edition of Land Use and Society devotes greater attention to urban land use and related social issues with two new chapters tracing American city and metropolitan change over the twentieth century. More emphasis is given to social justice and the environmental movement and their respective roles in shaping land use and policy in recent decades. This edition of Land Use and Society by Rutherford H. Platt is updated to reflect the 2000 Census, the most recent Supreme Court decisions, and various topics of current interest such as affordable housing, protecting urban water supplies, urban biodiversity, and "ecological cities." It also includes an updated conclusion that summarizes some positive and negative outcomes of urban land policies to date. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Land Use and Society, Revised Edition Geography, Law, and Public Policy By Rutherford H. Platt ISLAND PRESS Copyright © 2004 Rutherford H. Platt All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-55963-685-8 Contents ABOUT ISLAND PRESS, Title Page, Copyright Page, Dedication, INTRODUCTION, PART I - Preliminaries: Land, Geography, and Law, CHAPTER 1 - The Meanings and Uses of Land, CHAPTER 2 - The Interaction of Geography and Law, PART II - From Feudalism to Federalism: The Social Organization of Land Use, CHAPTER 3 - Historic Roots of Modern Land Use Institutions, CHAPTER 4 - City Growth and Reform in the Nineteenth Century, CHAPTER 5 - Building a Metropolitan Nation: 1900–1945, CHAPTER 6 - The Polarized Metropolis: 1945–2000, PART III - Discordant Voices: Property Ownership, Local Government, and the Courts, CHAPTER 7 - Property Rights: The Owner as Planner, CHAPTER 8 - The Tapestry of Local Governments, CHAPTER 9 - Local Zoning and Growth Management, CHAPTER 10 - Land Use and the Courts, PART IV - Beyond Localism: The Search for Broader Land Use Policies, CHAPTER 11 - Land Programs: Regional, State, Federal, CHAPTER 12 - Congress and the Metropolitan Environment, CONCLUSION - Status and Prospects, ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, ABOUT THE AUTHOR, SOME COMMON ACRONYMS, LIST OF CASES, INDEX, ISLAND PRESS BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CHAPTER 1 The Meanings and Uses of Land For the Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land. A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey; a land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.—DEUTERONOMY 8:7–9The Earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.... It is not too soon to provide by every possible means that as few as possible shall be without a little portion of land.—THOMAS JEFFERSON, LETTER TO REV. JAMES MADISON, 1785, 390It is a comfortable feeling to know that you stand on your own ground. Land is about the only thing that can't fly away.—ANTHONY TROLLOPE, THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET, 1867 What Is Land? From the Old Testament to today, the subject of land arouses emotions: a vision of hope and faith, a source of wealth and social status, a subject of indignant political reform, and so on. It is therefore appropriate at the outset of a book on land use and society to ask, what really is "land"? Land is one of the key constituents of life on Earth, along with water, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and sunlight. Lacking any of these components would make it unnecessary and in fact impossible for life to exist as we know it. Daniel Hillel (1994, 20) observes that since thre
