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Full-Text Articles in Law
The Zoning Straitjacket: The Freezing Of American Neighborhoods Of Single-Family Houses, Robert Ellickson
The Zoning Straitjacket: The Freezing Of American Neighborhoods Of Single-Family Houses, Robert Ellickson
Indiana Law Journal
Municipal zoning practices profoundly shape urban life in the United States. In regions such as Silicon Valley, regulatory barriers to residential construction have helped raise house prices to roughly ten times the national median. These astronomic prices have prompted some households to move to places, such as Texas, where housing is far cheaper. I have been engaged in an empirical study of zoning practices in Silicon Valley, Greater New Haven, and Greater Austin. This Article presents one of my central findings, induced from those metropolitan areas and elsewhere: local zoning politics typically freezes land uses in an established neighborhood of …
Planetizen Blog Posts- First Half Of 2019, Michael Lewyn
Planetizen Blog Posts- First Half Of 2019, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
The Rise Of Market Urbanism, Michael Lewyn
The Rise Of Market Urbanism, Michael Lewyn
Scholarly Works
Compares market urbanism to new urbanism and to defenders of suburban sprawl. Like new urbanists, market urbanists find urban life to be socially valuable, and emphasize that sprawl is not always in line with consumer preferences. But market urbanists are more likely to emphasize the role of government regulation in creating suburbanization, and to oppose anti-sprawl land use regulations.
The Rise Of Market Urbanism, Michael Lewyn
The Rise Of Market Urbanism, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Explaining Market Urbanism, Michael Lewyn
Explaining Market Urbanism, Michael Lewyn
Scholarly Works
Compares Market Urbanism to New Urbanism and Landscape Urbanism
Suburbia, Gentrification And Jews, Michael Lewyn
Suburbia, Gentrification And Jews, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Attacking Smart Growth, Michael Lewyn
Attacking Smart Growth, Michael Lewyn
Scholarly Works
Review of The Human City, by Joel Kotkin
Attacking Smart Growth, Michael Lewyn
My Planetizen Blog Posts July-August 2017, Michael Lewyn
My Planetizen Blog Posts July-August 2017, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
2015 Cnu Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2015 Cnu Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Attacking Smart Growth, Michael Lewyn
Attacking Smart Growth, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
The Middle Class, Urban Schools And Choice, Michael Lewyn
The Middle Class, Urban Schools And Choice, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Billy Joel: The Chronicler Of The Suburbanization In New York, Patricia E. Salkin, Irene Crisci
Billy Joel: The Chronicler Of The Suburbanization In New York, Patricia E. Salkin, Irene Crisci
Patricia E. Salkin
Artists often chronicle historical developments through their chosen medium. In the case of Billy Joel, some of his lyrics can be traced to the early sustainability movements as he wrote about the migration of people from the cities and the attendant problems with rapid suburbanization. Described by Tony Bennett as “a poet, a performer, a philosopher and today’s American songbook,” his lyrics address, among other topics, land use, community development, and environmental issues. Following World War II, there was a major shift in population settlement patterns in the United States. As war heroes returned home, not only did the country …
How To Make Suburbia Less Sprawling, Michael Lewyn
How To Make Suburbia Less Sprawling, Michael Lewyn
Scholarly Works
Review of Retrofitting Sprawl, edited by Emily Talen.
How To Make Suburbia Less Sprawling, Michael Lewyn
How To Make Suburbia Less Sprawling, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Billy Joel: The Chronicler Of The Suburbanization In New York, Patricia E. Salkin, Irene Crisci
Billy Joel: The Chronicler Of The Suburbanization In New York, Patricia E. Salkin, Irene Crisci
Touro Law Review
Artists often chronicle historical developments through their chosen medium. In the case of Billy Joel, some of his lyrics can be traced to the early sustainability movements as he wrote about the migration of people from the cities and the attendant problems with rapid suburbanization. Described by Tony Bennett as “a poet, a performer, a philosopher and today’s American songbook,” his lyrics address, among other topics, land use, community development, and environmental issues. Following World War II, there was a major shift in population settlement patterns in the United States. As war heroes returned home, not only did the country …
2015 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2015 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
2014 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2014 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Suburbs As Exit, Suburbs As Entrance, Nicole Stelle Garnett
Suburbs As Exit, Suburbs As Entrance, Nicole Stelle Garnett
Nicole Stelle Garnett
Most academics assume that suburbanites are exiters who have abandoned central cities. The exit story is a foundational one in the fields of land-use and local-government law: Exiters' historical, social, and economic connections with their center cities are frequently used to justify both growth controls and regional government. The exit story, however, no longer captures the American suburban experience. For a majority of Americans, suburbs have become points of entrance to, not of exit from, urban life. Most suburbanites are enterers - people who were born in, or migrated directly to, suburbs and who have not spent time living in …
2013 Cnu Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2013 Cnu Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
2013 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2013 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
The Future Of Abandoned Big Box Stores : Legal Solutions To The Legacies Of Poor Planning Decisions, Sarah B. Schindler
The Future Of Abandoned Big Box Stores : Legal Solutions To The Legacies Of Poor Planning Decisions, Sarah B. Schindler
Faculty Publications
Big box stores, the defining retail shopping location for the majority of American suburbs, are being abandoned at alarming rates, due in part to the economic downturn. These empty stores impose numerous negative externalities on the communities in which they are located, including blight, reduced property values, loss of tax revenue, environmental problems, and a decrease in social capital. While scholars have generated and critiqued prospective solutions to prevent abandonment of big box stores, this Article asserts that local zoning ordinances can alleviate the harms imposed by the thousands of existing, vacant big boxes. Because local governments control land use …
The Future Of Abandoned Big Box Stores: Legal Solutions To The Legacies Of Poor Planning Decisions, Sarah Schindler
The Future Of Abandoned Big Box Stores: Legal Solutions To The Legacies Of Poor Planning Decisions, Sarah Schindler
University of Colorado Law Review
Big box stores, the defining retail shopping location for the majority of American suburbs, are being abandoned at alarming rates, due in part to the economic downturn. These empty stores impose numerous negative externalities on the communities in which they are located, including blight, reduced property values, loss of tax revenue, environmental problems, and a decrease in social capital. While scholars have generated and critiqued prospective solutions to prevent abandonment of big box stores, this Article asserts that local zoning ordinances can alleviate the harms imposed by the thousands of existing, vacant big boxes. Because local governments control land use …
2012 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2012 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
2011 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2011 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Slides: Agricultural Resilience And Urban Growth: A Closer Look, William R. Travis
Slides: Agricultural Resilience And Urban Growth: A Closer Look, William R. Travis
Western Water Law, Policy and Management: Ripples, Currents, and New Channels for Inquiry (Martz Summer Conference, June 3-5)
Presenter: William R. Travis, Department of Geography, Center for Science & Technology Policy Research, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder
30 slides
2009 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
2009 Planetizen Blog Posts, Michael Lewyn
Michael E Lewyn
Suburbs As Exit, Suburbs As Entrance, Nicole Stelle Garnett
Suburbs As Exit, Suburbs As Entrance, Nicole Stelle Garnett
Journal Articles
Most academics assume that suburbanites are exiters who have abandoned central cities. The exit story is a foundational one in the fields of land-use and local-government law: Exiters' historical, social, and economic connections with their center cities are frequently used to justify both growth controls and regional government. The exit story, however, no longer captures the American suburban experience. For a majority of Americans, suburbs have become points of entrance to, not of exit from, urban life. Most suburbanites are enterers - people who were born in, or migrated directly to, suburbs and who have not spent time living in …
"Five Myths About Sprawl", Michael E Lewyn
"Five Myths About Sprawl", Michael E Lewyn
ExpressO
The article reviews a recent book about suburban sprawl (Robert Bruegmann’s “Sprawl: A Compact History”), and shows how the book exemplifies a wide variety of misconceptions about the causes and effects of suburban sprawl. For example, Bruegmann argues that the near-universal existence of some suburban development means that sprawl is inevitable in a free society. My article responds that there is a huge difference between fundamentally pedestrian-friendly cities with some suburban development and regions where an automobile is a necessity even for city-dwellers. The article goes on to show how, by promoting auto-oriented sprawl, government made the latter situation common.
How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even In A City Without Zoning), Michael E. Lewyn
How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even In A City Without Zoning), Michael E. Lewyn
ExpressO
Numerous commentators have suggested that the spread-out, automobile-dependent urban form (often referred to as “sprawl”) that dominates metropolitan America is at least partially caused by government regulation of land use. But at first glance, the fate of Houston, Texas may seem to rebut that theory. Houston is America’s only large city without a formal zoning code. Yet Houston is as automobile-dependent and sprawling as many cities with zoning. It could therefore be argued that automobile-dependent sprawl is the inevitable result of the free market.
The purpose of my article is to rebut that theory, by showing that land use is …