ZONING & AMERICAN DREAM, PROMISES STILL to KEEP by HAAR/1989 1st

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ZONING & AMERICAN DREAM, PROMISES STILL to KEEP by HAAR/1989 1st:
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ZONING AND THE AMERICAN DREAM. PROMISES STILL TO KEEP. EDITED BY CHARLES M. HAAR AND JERODL S. KAYDEN. Chicago: Planners Press; American Planning Association; The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1989. First Edition. Scarce.

Asolid and attractive scarce book. Published25years ago, this edition is now long out of print and hard to find.

From the Preface: \"This book had its genesis in a Fall, 1986 meeting of the Lincoln Institute\'s LAnd Policy roundtable in Cambridge, Massachusetts. There, planners, lawyers, historians, sociologists, economists, developers, bankers, judges, and other practitioners and scholars met to discuss, evaluate, and occasionally argue about the central land-use planning mechanism of the twentieth century: zoning. The occasion celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the 1926 U.S. Supreme Court decision, Village of Euchid v. Ambler Realty Co. Many of the papers collected in this volume were initially presented at that 1986 meeting. Other papers were outgrowths of discussions at the meeting. The book does not purport to contain an exhaustive review of zoning\'s every aspect, even though it touches on many of the central features. Part I, The Historical Setting, animates zoning\'s most famous courtroom encounter, the Euchid case, by delving into the personalities, legal strategies, and social context behind the opinion\'s written words. PArt II,Zoning Applied (Misapplied): An Experiment in Social and Physical ORder, traces the impact of zoning\'s near-universal adoption and application, with criticism and praise for its social, economic, Environmental, and physical ramifications. Part III, Zoning and the Courts: A Steady Legal Legacy?, examines the active participation of judges in the planning and zoning of American communities, a participation that sometimes shook and other times maintained the status

Large & HeavyQuarto- sized hardcover book; ix + 386pages of text. Very Good+ condition: no torn or missing pages; no writing or markings in the text; no ownership markings. Original hardcover binding, with onlylight wear. A solid and attractive copy of thisbook.

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