The late 1960s and early 1970s brought increasing public concern over environmental issues such as rising population growth, resource depletion, and the overall quality of life. The State of Oregon, [...]
Regardless of the community's rationale for limiting growth, the result may be the exclusion of poor households from the community. Studies of growth control support the assertion that growth control [...]
Using a virtually unique data base for Vancouver, Canada, this study examines the ways in which various zoning classifications and land uses affect the sale prices of single-family residences over [...]
Both theory and observation suggest that three types of incentives are pertinent to suburban zoning decisions. From a legal and economic perspective, the rationale for zoning is to promote the [...]
In recent years in the United States, government regulation of the housing industry has increased dramatically. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, many communities became increasingly dissatisfied with the [...]
The British Town and Country planning system was originally designed to guide rather than restrict development. It has grown into a system which restricts development across the board. This has [...]
Tests of the efficiency of single family home prices are performed using repeat sales prices of 39,210 individual homes in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, and San Francisco/Oakland for 1970-86. The market [...]
Both large bodies of water and local governments restrict the supply of urban land. In this paper we measure water's restriction on supply and test its effect on land price. [...]
There is evidence that the implementation of the planning system creates 'scarcity rents' for land in different uses by acting as a constraint on land supply. This paper provides, for [...]
This study analyzes the adoption of growth controls in suburban municipalities. It combines data from census materials with a 1973 questionnaire survey of city planning officials concerning local growth control [...]