Land use controls can affect the quality of the environment, the provision of public services, the distribution of income and wealth, the development of natural

"Zoning has for a century enabled cities to chart their own course. It is a useful and popular institution, enabling homeowners to protect their main investment

The conversation about zoning has meandered its way through issues ranging from housing affordability to economic growth to segregation, expanding in the proces

Nearly all large American cities rely on zoning to regulate land use. According to Donald L. Elliott, however, zoning often discourages the very development tha

This volume embodies a problem-driven and theoretically informed approach to bridging frontier research in urban economics and urban/regional planning. The auth