Give your students a casebook as dynamic as the subject of land use by adopting this thoroughly revised edition of a former best seller. LAND USE CONTROLS: Cases and Materials, Third Edition, illuminates the legal regulation of the land development process with a skillful blend of social scientific analysis and historical materials.\ Both students and instructors will appreciate the casebook¿s strengths:\ \ distinguished authorship. Robert C. Ellickson is a Professor of Law at Yale and author...
Give your students a casebook as dynamic as the subject of land use by adopting this thoroughly revised edition of a former best seller. LAND USE CONTROLS: Cases and Materials, Third Edition , illuminates the legal regulation of the land development
Summary of Contents• The Land Development Process• Markets and Planners: An Initial Look at Relative Institutional Competence• Zoning and the Rights of Landowners and Developers• Zoning Changes and the Rights of Neighbors• Subdivision Regulations, Building Codes, Aesthetic Controls• Alternatives to Public Regulation: Nuisance Law, Fees and Rewards, Covenants• Financing the Urban Infrastructure• Discriminatory Land Use Controls• The Regional Obligations of Municipalities• Government as Landowner, Developer, and Financier