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By Paul Boudreaux

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 11:17:06

Bellemare on The Productivity Impacts of De Jure and De Facto Land Rights

Posted on January 11, 2010
Marc F. Bellemare (Duke--Pubic Policy & Economics) has posted The Productivity Impacts of De Jure and De Facto Land Rights. The abstract: There is an important literature on the causal relationship between the quality of institutions and macroeconomic performance...

George Will on Atlantic Yards & Eminent Domain

Posted on January 08, 2010
George Will wrote a column for the Washington Post titled "Avaricious developers and governments twist the meaning of 'blight.'" Will discusses the Atlantic Yards project (which we have blogged about) in light of the more general controversy over economic development...

"Rest Stops R.I.P."

Posted on January 08, 2010
From the very eclectic website "Good" comes a story about the death of the American rest stop. My husband found this story after we passed a closed rest stop on I-95 near Richmond, Virginia over the holidays. This is another...

Environmental Refugees and Land Use

Posted on January 07, 2010
Here's another gem I stored up during the holiday break - a very interesting story from The New York Times about how refugees from environmental disasters struggle in urban environments. As I mentioned in a previous post, migration issues are...

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Living in Risky Places...

Posted on January 06, 2010
One of the most interesting conversations that I had in 2009 with one of my classes involved whether the federal government should use taxpayer funds to enable individuals to live in areas subject to regular natural disasters. Places like hills...

Universal Design

Posted on January 06, 2010
Welcome back to a new semester! I'm battling a head cold and finishing up an office move, but it's time to get back in the saddle. Fortunately I've saved up a few interesting topics over the break. I happened upon...

News You Already Knew - a.k.a Too Many Strip Malls

Posted on January 06, 2010
Today on public radio's Marketplace, a story about how the recession has shown that strip mall space has been way overbuilt. No suprise. The story predicts no new strip malls will be in the Sunbelt for years. No problem. The...

Detroit: World's Largest Urban Farm?

Posted on January 05, 2010
The popular press has reported recently on the plans of Detroit financier John R. Hantz to create the world's largest urban farm in Detroit, using vacant and blighted land on which to build the project. The primary purpose of the...

Garnett on Ordering the City

Posted on January 05, 2010
Nicole Stelle Garnett (Notre Dame) has published Ordering the City: Land Use, Policing, and the Restoration of Urban America (Yale University Press, 2009). From the Amazon.com blurb: This timely and important book highlights the multiple, often overlooked, and frequently misunderstood...

Burj Dubai: The Superscraper

Posted on January 05, 2010
There is a new World's Tallest Building: Burj Dubai. The �1 billion Burj Dubai is at least 2,683ft from its base to the tip of its spire ? that?s more than half a mile, the equivalent of three-and-a-half Canary Wharf...

The SmartCode and Land Use Regulation...

Posted on January 04, 2010
Here in Montgomery, we've adopted a customized version of the SmartCode as the primary land use regulation for certain parts of the jurisdiction. You can read more about the SmartCode here and here. The SmartCode is both a form-based and...

Malanga's Take on "Feral Detroit"

Posted on January 04, 2010
Steven Malanga, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and the senior editor of the City Journal, has offered some interesting commentary recently on the state of Detroit's abandoned buildings (over 70,000 of them). Click here for an adaptation of...

Environmental Law Scholarship Colloquium at Vermont Law

Posted on January 03, 2010
From the fabulous folks at Vermont: FIRST ANNUAL FALL COLLOQUIUM ON ENVIRONMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP OCTOBER 22, 2010 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS Vermont Law School will host the ?First Annual Fall Colloquium on Environmental Scholarship.? The Colloquium offers the opportunity for environmental law...

Happy Land Use New Year!

Posted on January 02, 2010
A happy New Year to all of you with any of the wide array of professional or avocational interests that involve land use. There are probably some interesting land use issues that involve public New Year's celebrations or even traditional...

Land Use at AALS

Posted on December 31, 2009
The AALS Annual Meeting is next week at the Hilton Riverside in New Orleans. Land Use doesn't have its own AALS Section; rather, land use issues are integral to many topical areas across the legal profession, including property law, real...

Hills & Schleicher on the Steep Costs of Noncumulative Zoning

Posted on December 31, 2009
Roderick M. Hills, Jr. (NYU) and David Schleicher (George Mason) have posted The Steep Costs of Using Noncumulative Zoning to Preserve Land for Urban Manufacturing, forthcoming in the University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 77, No. 1, 2010. The abstract:...

Salkin & Ostrow on Cooperative Federalism and Wind

Posted on December 31, 2009
Patricia E. Salkin (Albany) and Ashira Pelman Ostrow (Hofstra) have posted Cooperative Federalism and Wind: A New Framework for Achieving Sustainability, forthcoming in the Hofstra Law Review, Vol. 37 (2009). The abstract: This Article proposes a federal wind siting policy...

Craig on Adapting Water Law to Public Necessity

Posted on December 31, 2009
Robin Kundis Craig (Florida State) has posted Adapting Water Law to Public Necessity: Reframing Climate Change Adaptation as Emergency Response and Preparedness, forthcoming in the Vermont Journal of Environmental Law. The abstract: As a result of both climate change and...

Ireland on the "Minnesota Model" for Regulation of Mortgage Brokers

Posted on December 31, 2009
Mark Ireland (Foreclosure Relief Project and Hamline) has posted After the Storm: Asymmetrical Information, Game Theory, and an Examination of the 'Minnesota Model' for National Regulation of Mortgage Brokers and Tomorrow's Predatory Lenders, published in William Mitchell Law Review, Vol...

Claeys on Parchomovsky & Stein and the Right to Exclude

Posted on December 31, 2009
Eric Claeys (George Mason) has posted The Right to Exclude in the Shadow of the Cathedral: A Response to Parchomovsky and Stein, forthcoming in the Northwestern University Law Review. The abstract: This response comments on ?Reconceptualizing Trespass,? by Gideon Parchomovsky...

Selmi on Land Use Regulation by Contract

Posted on December 31, 2009
Daniel P. Selmi (Loyola--Los Angeles) has posted Land Use Regulation by Contract. Here's the abstract: In recent years the use of contracts, known as development agreements, to establish land use regulations has grown rapidly. Both municipalities and development interests have...

French Lessons

Posted on December 29, 2009
The beautiful city of Strasbourg, France, has some lessons to teach the US about inner-city transit. It's interesting to note that the debate in Strasbourg wasn't over whether to build more public transit (or eliminate it), but whether to build...

Detroit's Empty Buildings...

Posted on December 28, 2009
As someone who grew up in the Detroit area and lived there through high school, I can attest to the fact that it's downtown has some amazing and beautiful architecture. Indeed, many great architects did some of their best work...

Top 100 Urban Thinkers

Posted on December 27, 2009
With the end of the year and the end of the decade (depending on whether you start counting at 0 or 1) at hand, I'm seeing lots of "top" lists, articles, and retrospectives in the last few days. So for...

The Legality of Bright Lights...

Posted on December 27, 2009
If you've been to Las Vegas, it doesn't take long to notice the city's love affair with brightly lit signs and billboards. These high-tech, high-pixel creatures come in all shapes and sizes. Yet, rather than reside in Vegas (with a...

China: Restaurant Hires Live-In Demolition Protestor

Posted on December 26, 2009
In a bit of international land use news comes this story from the Associated Press: Doomed China Restaurant Hires Live-In Protestor. BEIJING -- Wanted: One live-in protester, $146 a month, no days off. When the managers of a Beijing restaurant...

Neighbors Oppose Land Trust House

Posted on December 26, 2009
Happy Boxing Day! I hope everyone is enjoying their holidays and spending as little time as possible on the computer. However, here at our house everyone (except the breakfast cook) is sitting around the dining room table surfing the internet...

It's a Wonderful Life & The Mortgage Crisis

Posted on December 24, 2009
I had my annual viewing of It's a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra's 1946 classic, the other day, and it reminded me that a few commentators over the last year have drawn comparisons between the world of Bedford Falls and the...

"Surreal Estate/Tiger's Other Mansion"

Posted on December 23, 2009
In our on-going effort to find a land use angle on the Tiger Woods scandal, I give you a recent article from The New York Times T Magazine. The writer describes a mansion Tiger and his wife (at least for...

Article Series on Newtown

Posted on December 22, 2009
As I've previously posted, a Land Use Clinic client, Newtown Florist Club and the Newtown neighborhood, has been the subject of a three article series in the Gainesville Times. The final article contains reaction from public officials to our proposals...

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