Land-Use Controls in the United States, second edition

This book provides a comprehensive and readable account of the American system ofcontrolling the private use of land -- the public control of private development. It explains thegeneral, social, legal, and political context and the historical origin of these controls. Itprovides a technical description of the main methods (zoning and subdivision control) and identifiesrecent innovations in technique. The objectives of control and its effectiveness are considered, andsome parallels with British experience are explored. In a final chapter, "Retrospect and Prospect --1969," written especially for this new edition, developments of the past ten years and prospects forthe future are discussed.The book is intended to provide an introduction to the subject for allthose whose work or studies require some acquaintenace with land-use controls -- students ofplanning, law, social administration, and politics; professional planners, zoning lawyers; electedrepresentatives. It is also intended to provide the foreign visitor or observer with a clear accountof American methods of land-use control and a general introduction to the American planningscene.There is no other book that deals with this subject in a similar way. There are legaltextbooks that record the case law in excessive detail, and there are planning textbooks that dealwith the techniques in an uncritical way, unrelated to the historical, politcal, and administrativecontext.