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Planning For Density: Promises, Perils And A Paradox, Nicole Stelle Garnett
Planning For Density: Promises, Perils And A Paradox, Nicole Stelle Garnett
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This article, which was delivered as the 2017 Environmental Distinguished Lecture at Florida State University, discussed the promises, perils and an unappreciated paradox of current efforts to use land use policy to densify and urbanize American communities.
Ordering (And Order In) The City, Nicole Stelle Garnett
Ordering (And Order In) The City, Nicole Stelle Garnett
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Over the past two decades, the broken windows hypothesis by George Kelling and James Q. Wilson has revolutionized thinking about urban policy. This now-familiar theory is that uncorrected manifestations of disorder, even minor ones like broken windows, signal a breakdown in the social order that accelerates neighborhood decline. The response to this theory has been a proliferation of policies focusing on public order. Largely missing from the academic debate about these developments is a discussion of the complex and important role of property regulation in order-maintenance efforts. This Article attempts to fill that property law gap in the public-order puzzle …